[LINK] the gang's all here against google books

[Jan Whitaker]

from: Fwd: Publishers Lunch
>Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo Join Coalition to Oppose Google Settlement
>Google's 3 major rivals will join a coalition of nonprofit groups, 
>individuals and library associations, tentatively called the Open 
>Book Alliance, in opposing the Google Books Settlement. The group, 
>led by antitrust lawyer Gary L. Reback and the Internet Archive's 
>Peter Brantley, plans to make a case to the Justice Department that 
>the arrangement is anticompetitive, with individual members likely 
>filing court objections independently.
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>"This deal has enormous, far-reaching anticompetitive consequences 
>that people are just beginning to wake up to," Reback told the NYT. 
>Brantley separately told the WSJ that  members of the coalition "all 
>see problems with the settlement and are pushing for revisions, but 
>not all necessarily want to see it blocked." Some may find irony in 
>Microsoft joining a group led by Reback as helped persuade the 
>Justice Department to file its antitrust case against that company 
>in the 1990s.
><http://click.publisherslunchdaily.com/cp/redirect.php?u=NTAwNnwzNDQ4OXxqd2hpdEBqYW53aGl0YWtlci5jb218MzMwMzgzfDc2MDIyMjM2fDUxNDg2Nw==&id=2045584>NYT
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