5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading - Futurism - io9

5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading - Futurism - io9: "If you care about the future of books, you need to understand the Google Book Settlement. It's a complicated legal document, but we've talked to some of its architects, detractors, and defenders - and break it all down for you.

The Google Book Settlement could easily be the twenty-first century's most important shift in how we deal with copyright in the world of publishing. To understand it, you need a little back story on the previous giant shift in copyright law, which happened about twelve years ago."