2010-Aug- 6
U.S. Authors Guild Slams Amazon's Resistance to Google Books Settlement Agreement Too Hypocritical

According to media reports, the U.S. Internet retail giant Amazon.com on Tuesday officially expressed written objections against Google digital books settlement agreement. One of the participants of the agreement Authors Guild subsequently issued a strongly worded statement against the agreement, saying that the objection of Amazon against the agreement was untenable. And accused that the "insincerity" of Amazon, was an outright "hypocrisy" behavior.Last Week My Father Gave Ray Ban Sunglasses for My Mother

Google in last autumn made a settlement with Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers. This agreement writes that Google ends the lawsuit with these associations. And it will take the books which were scanned as the Google search service and share the net advisement income with two associations. Amazon submitted a lawsuit abstract file to U.S. federal district New York on Tuesday this week. Amazon indicated in the 49-page documents that google reached the settlement agreement which conflicted withthe digital copyright laws amended by the United States Congress and was conducive to the competition of the field of digital book industry. And eventually lead to more expense of consumers spending on digital books, therefore, require the court to confirm the invalidity of the settlement agreement. American Authors Guild said in a statement later that they were disheartening for AmazonЎЇs insincerity.Tiffanys , Top April Fools' Day Hits for Sweetheart

Although at present the business of Kindle is in loss phase, Amazon wants more pulbic to be the users of Kindle and puts pressure on the publishers and writers. Thus, the market behavior of Amazon will have a devastating blow to the U.S. publishing industry.Authors Guild lately stated that the reason why Amazon opposed settlement of Google digital books publicly is to worry about threats from Google. Actually the agreement from Google is not exclusive while companies like Amazon can make a similar one. Google had also issued a similar view with the American Writers Association. Many U.S. public institutions support google's digital books settlement agreement and say that it will be conducive to the publics to search various of books and information through the internet.

To some extent, it adds the equal access to the education for the public.

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