Yahoo!, Amazon, MSFT Oppose Google Book Deal

[JMcEntegart]

Google's book deal is already facing an antitrust inquiry from the Department of Justice; and it seems the DOJ isn't the only one to disagree with Google and the Authors Guild's agreement.

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[doomtomb]

War has started...

 

[tayb]

It's not t he DOJ Google needs to worry about... the EU is eying another opportunity to finance European endeavors. Uh oh.

 

[nukemaster]

[citation][nom]tayb[/nom]It's not t he DOJ Google needs to worry about... the EU is eying another opportunity to finance European endeavors. Uh oh.[/citation]
+1

 

[thepetey]

oh really? Google's biggest competitors don't agree with this deal?... couldn't see that one coming.

 

[Hanin33]

what exactly is the argument here? who's not getting paid or what? isn't the 125m part of royalty payments?

 

[rigaudio]

And if Amazon started up something like that, Google would be against it as well.

 

[UmeNNis]

^ It's called Kindle

 

[domenic]

This has to be one of the poorest written articles I've ever read (or tried to read) WTF?

 

[shqtth]

ya im confused. Learn to write.

 

[scuba dave]

Yeah.. use smaller words. And use pictures. Pop-up pictures. 😵


But other than my lame attempt at sarcasm.. It's kind of funny seeing MSFT, of all people, pointing fingers at Google for being a monopoly. Just can't have that now can we? 😛