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U.S. Justice Department Sour on Google Book Deal

by Allen Weiner  |  September 21, 2009  |  Comments Off

The latest installment in the Google-Amazon drama. Continued negotiations to follow.

“The current settlement proposal would stifle innovation and competition in favor of a monopoly over the access, distribution and pricing of the largest collection of digital books in the world, and would reinforce an already dominant position in search and search advertising,” said the Open Book Alliance, which includes Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon, three of Google’s biggest rivals.

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