Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has now agreed to let any book retailer resell access to the out-of-print books it is putting online via its Google Books search engine. But the offer does not seem to have appeased the company’s critics, who contend that Google will still wield too much control over the book industry—and particularly over [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — After a flurry of last-minute filings on Tuesday, a federal judge must now begin untangling the mountain of competing claims about how a legal settlement granting Google the right to create the world’s largest digital library and bookstore would affect competition, authors’ rights and readers’ privacy…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will ask European book publishers’ permission before making their works available to U.S. users, in a bid to stay on the right side of EU states’ copyright law. Google confirmed to paidContent:UK in a statement that it will digitize either the full text or excerpts from “commercially available” books—but says “such books [...]

As time runs short for comments on the proposed Google book settlement to be filed, Amazon has filed its objections: it’s Congress’ job to sort out copyright issues, the deal will create an illegal entity, and (worst of all) it’s bad for Amazon’s business model…

Have you noticed that Sony has launched its best ebook reader a couple of days ago, with an AT&T 3G modem for fast wireless connection? Not by accident, Google now announced they’re offering over a million public domain books in EPUB format – the exact format that Sony’s Daily Edition reader likes…