Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to fight Google book deal
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Three of Google's largest rivals are joining a coalition to oppose a legal settlement that would give the internet search leader digital rights to millions of copyrighted books.
Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon.com are all part of a group being called the Open Book Alliance. It's being put together by the Internet Archive, a longtime critic of Google's digital book crusade.
Peter Brantley, an Internet Archive executive, disclosed the plans to forge the alliance in a Thursday interview.
Google contends its rivals' objections are rooted in a fear of more competition in the digital book market.
The class-action settlement that would expand Google's digital library is scheduled to be reviewed in an Oct. 7 court hearing.
- AP
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