Google’s Digitized Book Project Hinges on a Retro Kind of Search - NYTimes.com

Google’s Digitized Book Project Hinges on a Retro Kind of Search - NYTimes.com: "Google, the online giant, had been sued in federal court by a large group of authors and publishers who claimed that its plan to scan all the books in the world violated their copyrights.

As part of the class-action settlement, Google will pay $125 million to create a system under which customers will be charged for reading a copyrighted book, with the copyright holder and Google both taking percentages; copyright holders will also receive a flat fee for the initial scanning, and can opt out of the whole system if they wish.

But first they must be found."