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Just so you know, what she was objecting to was that originally there was the full text of a number of her books on Google. What started her conflict with them wasn't the partial preview you see after she mentioned it here. That's just what was left after they took down what was essentially a free distribution of her work. All of that happened a couple weeks before she ever posted here. Another problem was that even though they didn't have license to distribute them, they wouldn't take them down until she proved she did. Hence the fait accompli they may be doing to a number of authors.

I think the google idea is dynamite. Very neat, but I don't think they should be doing that with the entire book to which they don't have license and someone else does. That to me is theft.