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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Just as a general comment, why do you think it is so much worse for authors if Google digitizes books and provides links to bookstores that sell that book (including Google's own bookstore)? Why should transforming paper books into searchable digital books be morally okay, but linking those books to a retail store be so repugnant?
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I've never said that it was.
The settlement proposed that Google themselves would directly sell ebooks based on the scans that they had made, not just link to authorised versions that the creators had already made available.
That is what I have been saying is so clearly a copyright violation I'm amazed there is even a discussion about it.