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Amazon has also joined the millions who are raising voice against Google Books Settlement. The strongly worded letter written by Amazon is evident and supports that fact that Amazon is strictly against the Google Books Settlement for various important reasons. Amazon has filed a compliant with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The compliant stated, “creates a cartel of authors and publishers … operating with virtually no restrictions on its actions, with the potential to raise book prices and reduce output to the detriment of consumers and new authors or publishers who would compete with the cartel members,”
A settlement proposal was framed in October and everything seemed to be working out well with Google. Google even had an agreement with some of the book publishers and authors. The agreement was agreed and various tasks towards managing of the process of scanning the books and making them digitally available throughout the internet. However, the process was interrupted as the publishers sued Google for copyright infringement. And now, Amazon has now added on to this list and the new rival against Google sounds to be very serious and they are strong enough to confront the search giants.
The complaint that Amazon has filed is quite different from what other publishers are complaining. One of the main services of Amazon is to scan books and make them digitally available for all users. However, the main reason behind is that it claims is that Google is violating the federal antitrust laws and establishing Google as the sole and exclusive distributor of all those orphan books for which the information about the author is not available. Now Amazon is completely against this point as it claims that orphan books still have copyrights, it is just the authors’ details missing. In the letter that has been written by Amazon says that, “A court cannot approve a class action settlement that violates federal antitrust laws,”
The settlement agreement proposes that the association would be a non profit Book Rights Registry for which a part of the payment would be paid by Google. Also, the team would fix up price for all the orphan books. For other usual books in the library, a subscription price would be fixed in order to access the books. This is the settlement proposal that has frustrated all publishers and writers as all their hard work is made available just for few bucks.
As far as the agreement is concerned, nothing has been specified that no other company can set up a similar arrangement. However, resources say that it would nearly be impossible for any other company to get the same deals from publishing industry. This shows that there would certainly be no competition for Google in this sector of making copies of digital books.