After seven years of legal battles, Google has finally reached an agreement with an American book publisher that will let it scan and digitize books.
While readers and publishers will be happy, Amazon is unlikely to share their enthusiasm. For almost a decade now, Google have been trying to scan and digitise books, but has been stymied by lawsuits from the AAP and the Authors Guild, who claim that the scanning process amounts to copyright infringement.
Although the Guild said that it is still against the deal, Google may be able to finally start moving forward with its digital books plan, which stands to make book searching and buying a lot easier.
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