Google Books is the revolutionary new platform that will let you read books online. Not only that, it will let you search through pages of the book just like you search on Google. The search giant's settlement with publishers and authors that give them the right to sell millions of books online is being opposed by the Open Book Alliance. Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft have also joined this alliance.
The settlement which was reached last October between Google, The Association of American Publishers and The Authors Guild, would allow Google to display portions of books online when the users search, and sell digital copies of those books.
Google Books had cataloged over 1 million public domain books, the copyrights of which had expired. The authors and publishers associations sued the tech giant in 2005 for copyright infringement over its plans to scan and copy millions of books, some of which were still under copyright. A settlement was thus reached that would give publishers and authors $45 million.
A formal announcement from the Open Book Alliance is expected next week.
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