So, Amazon has finally come out and taken a huge step in their fight against the Google Books settlement. They have filed a brief with the U.S. District Court (of which you can read here).
Now, we all know that Amazon has been scanning books for their Kindle, which makes a few of us ask ourselves “what’s wrong with Google doing the same thing?” Well, what Google was doing was technically not the same thing as they were scanning books that are now out-of-print without any permission. Of course, Amazon has not done this, which makes them take up this platform for their opposition. There were already many others who were against this in the beginning, but I think now that Amazon has formally stated their position on it as well, things are going to get more dicey from here on out. Apparently there are already more briefs in the making as well from other major companies, including Sony and Microsoft.
I, for one, still thoroughly enjoy reading my manga from physical pages when I can.
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[Amazon’s Brief (PDF)]
