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Woot!
On the one hand, googlebooks have been a really useful thing. On the other, the settlement proposed was good for (1) Google, (2) many (not all) authors connected to the Author's Guild, (3) .... ahm, some other authors with out-of-print books that they'd like redistributed but don't want to put forth any effort in that direction.
Was not good for anyone who produced book content that didn't fall under AG's preferred scope, like academic writers/publishers, music/lyrics writers, photographers, children's books authors, non-US authors, orphan-works rightsholders, and more. All of whom would be bound by the agreement if it went through, because the AG claimed they were part of the class being represented.
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