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Amazon are not at all happy with the decision and are crying, CARTEL - Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) traded barbs Thursday morning in a House Judiciary Committee hearing about competition in the digital book market, joined by supporters and detractors of the proposed Google Books settlement.
The settlement, announced last October and awaiting judicial approval, would end Google's copyright liability for scanning and digitizing millions of books and set up a Book Rights Registry to distribute revenue to authors from Google's settlement payment and from Google Book Search. It would also allow Google to sell access to, and advertising for, digital books, including orphaned works -- books without an identifiable rights holder. More HERE
2 comments:
The creator looses more and more control at every turn.
That's funny about Amazon crying "cartel".
They're in the midst of a class action lawsuit themselves about forcing publishers who do POD to use their Surge system or face the possibility of not being listed on their store.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
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