2008-10-28

Google wins?

Google just settled a lawsuit brought against them by authors and publishers. At first blush, it seems that Google just agreed to spend $125 million to avoid even greater financial liability. But, as Ben Reis pointed out to me, they only had to invest $125M to get the book publishing equivalent of the iTunes store agreed to by a large swathe of publishers. Interesting jujutsu.

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