14 DAY TRIAL // Lately, Google Print has been targeted by an increasing number of editors who are displeased with the project. If a few weeks ago, Google was being sued by the Author's Guild, it's time now for another organization to launch an attack against the search engine's service.
The Association of American Publishers is suing Google and the charges are the same: copyright infringement. AAP is an organization which promotes and backs the interests of five American publishing houses: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Pearson Education, Penguin Group (USA), Simon & Schuster and John Wiley & Sons.
Their objective is the same as Author's Guild's: blocking Google from making millions of dollars by exploiting other people's work. AAP plans to go all the way with this procedure and prevent Google from duplicating any book.
These legal actions are rather strange, especially since Google paused the program and said that it plans to obtain the editors' approval regarding every scanned book. The scanning process will be resumed starting November 1.
Not long ago, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, published an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, in which he explained Google Print's goal. You can read the article here.