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Google didn't do anything wrong, any more than you or me or anyone who quotes some book we've read. At least, until the Author's Guild did their stupid thing, and then decided bizarrely to say it's all right for Google to sell orphaned works.
It sounds to me as if they were just hoping to make free money off Google, because everyone wants to BELIEVE Google is evil, bent on world domination, and "steling ar bookz!!!11"
I wonder how much any author lost due to lost sales as a result of Google's indexing? I'm guessing somewhere between zero and nothing. That's because NOBODY GOT ANYTHING ANYWAY! Besides for the knowledge of "hey, go to this store and buy this book to learn more about that quote you just googled."
What is anyone's big fat hairy deal? Next thing you know, they will complain that Google infringed on the unique content on their website home page.
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