Hacker NewsOct 22, 2024
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
#ycombinator #Google #books #out_of_print_books #class_action #Google_Books #settlement #Authors_Guild #class_action_settlement #Google_Books_Search #Google_Books_database #Google_Books_litigation #Google_Book_Search
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

The Atlantic