Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft Block Google's Book Project
Major tech companies like Yahoo, Amazon, and Microsoft said that it will join major groups in opposing scheduled legal settle between book authors and Google, which earlier planned to sell digital copies of millions of books in its website.
Tech companies Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon posed another hurdle to Google's plan to scan into digital copies millions of books and sell it in the internet.
The three giants, together with major NGO’s and associations of libraries, said over the weekend that it will block the scheduled legal settlement between Google and book authors.
Dubbed as the “open book alliance,” Microsoft said that Google’s vast book scan plan will face a major hurdle as more and more groups are expressing strong opposition to the project.
But despite earlier reports that Yahoo and Amazon will also join the calls for the stoppage of the book scanning, respective company executives refused to comment on the issue.
The “open book alliance” aims to stop Google from “monopolizing” the commercialization of all books and other copyrighted materials from the 1800s to this year.
San Francisco-based NGO Internet Archive Director Peter Brantley said that they will join the alliance by next week, saying that they are also planning to put up a digital library which can be threatened by a legal settlement by Google and book authors.
If the settlement would push through, Google would have a significant advantage over smaller players and would be on top of the monopoly position by dictating the prices of the digital books.
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