Google's digitized book service will tear down barriers for people living in
low-income areas, added Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights.
A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, supporters said Thursday.
After finally reaching a formal agreement with authors and publishers, a host of other heavyweights including Microsoft and Yahoo came forward to challenge the settlement of Google books. Google co-founder Sergey Brin addressed criticisms of the settlement in a lengthy editorial.
Early this morning a coalition of authors, publishers and privacy advocates filed an objection to the Google search settlement case and surprisingly it had little to do with ...