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I only posted my comment to her blog a few minutes before posting here, I doubt that it will be approved before morning in whatever time zone she's in (or later). I think it's true, though, that most of the authors (and others) siding with the Author's Guild mistakenly believe that what the court ruled as fair use is the results they get from the Publisher Project, which are the previews are only made available with the permission of the publisher as a form of free or inexpensive advertising, instead of the 3 or so lines of snippet view. Since she doesn't understand what she's railing against, there's probably no point in me elaborating why I think it's nothing more than an attempt at a stupid money grab from a big company with deep pockets and is a really counterproductive position for authors to take.
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