Google Book Project Faces New Hurdle

Here's a news article, Infotech Giants To Oppose Google Book Project. An excerpt:

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! are reportedly planning to join several library associations and non-profit groups in opposing Google's settlement with authors and publishers which would allow it to digitize and sell millions of books.

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal said the technology heavyweights have agreed to form what is tentatively being called the "Open Book Alliance" to challenge the Google Book Search project.

Google reached a class action settlement in October of last year with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) to a copyright infringement lawsuit they filed in 2005.

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