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Google Books search settlement, a new look 

Google is in talks with the U.S. Justice Department and the plaintiffs in the settlement governing its plans to create a digital book index, on potential changes to the settlement that could ease the Justice Department’s concerns about the deal, Bloomberg reported.

The judge yesterday gave Google until Oct. 2 to respond to the 400-odd briefs submitted in opposition to the settlement deal.

Google Inc. is pairing up with Espresso Book Machine maker On Demand Books (ODB) to let users print bound copies of some digitized books.

Google has around two million books in its digital repository, mainly titles published before 1923. Under the deal On Demand Books (ODB) will print the books as soon as they are ordered using its Espresso Book Machine, which can print a paperback in five minutes.

The books will have a recommended price of $8, with ODB and Google taking a dollar of that each and the rest going to the retailer.

If the Department of Justice investigation into Google’s book operations allows the search giant to continue Google may be able to massively expand its collection by digitising books that are no longer in print but are still covered by copyright.

Amazon, which is operating its own book-scanning initiative and offers customers books via its Kindle electronic reader device, has argued that the deal would give Google too much control over online books.

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Amarendra Bhushan
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