Google eyes digital book settlement

By Associated Press
Saturday, November 14, 2009 - Updated 125d 13h ago

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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.’s plans to add millions of copyright-protected books to its digital library are riding on a new legal settlement addressing the objections of government regulators who don’t want Google to gain too much power over a new market.

The revisions, expected to be filed with a New York federal court last night, represent Google’s latest attempt to resolve a 4-year-old lawsuit with groups representing the interests of U.S. authors and publishers.

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A scanner passes over a book at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., where one of hundreds of librarians from all over the world was helping Google Inc.’s Book Search create digital versions of all the estimated 50 million to 100 million