Google Wants All World's Books and Will Pay All the Authors
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Google has been making progress with its Google Book Search project, having scanned and indexed 7 million volumes, but it will vastly expand if a settlement with authors and publishers is approved by a U.S. Federal court in Manhattan.
The settlement decision is expected sometime in Q4 of this year. The agreement covers authors with who hold copyrights in the United States. If the settlement is approved, Google will expand the project globally.
Books_sm2 We sat down with Google spokesperson Gabriel Stricker who explained the process and what the approval will mean for users of Google and authors of "orphan" books which are out of print but still have copyright protection.
While amount of money for authors in the settlement is just $60 per title, there will be other fees in the form of sharing in e-commerce, search and advertising.
Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch wrote about the pending settlement and payment to authors back in February.
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