Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars. We've become accustomed to librarians and academics uncritically fawning over the disaster that is Google Books (especially those privileged librarians among the sovereign ly immune), yet give this one by Professor Geoffrey Nunberg a read: "Start with publication dates. MORE >>

Not surprisingly, the William Morris Endeavor talent agency has advised its clients--twice--to opt out of the Google Books settlement: "There is an important right that is relinquished under the terms of the Settlement that the Authors Guild does not adequately address. MORE >>

Marybeth Peters gave her usual cogent analysis at a congressional hearing last week, this time on the Google Books case. This is not to say that a compulsory license or collective license for book digitization projects may or may not be an interesting idea. MORE >>

It appears that in the very near future, when you snuggle up in bed with a good book, you may be snuggling up with your computer as well. Enter Google, arguably the most prominent force in media and technology today. Try again, Google. Hold it right there, says the DOJ. Not a particularly outrageous sentiment, is it? Maybe. MORE >>

September 4 marks the deadline for authors and publishers to opt out of a proposed settlement allowing Google, Inc. to move forward with its plan to scan millions of books and make them available on an online database. If the holder does not do so, the book would pass into the common domain and be available to Google or anyone else. MORE >>