This week Microsoft, Yahoo! and Amazon decided to join the forces trying to stop Google’s book scanning program.
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are planning to join a coalition of nonprofit groups, individuals and library associations to oppose a proposed class-action settlement giving Google the rights to commercialize digital copies of millions of books.
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) has made deals with publishers and libraries in order to be allowed to scan all the books in the world. It may sound like a mad man talking, but Google’s plan is actually to index the texts of all the printed material in the world and make it searchable on the net.
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