Allies to fight Google’s book plans

Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon have become unlikely allies in the fight against Google’s plans to bring all books online.

As is the way that Google does business, the company began scanning and posting books online only to be hit with legal threats from publishers.

Google put its hand in its pocket and came up with a tidy $125 million in an attempt to tie up all of those legal issues.

So now the idea is that through the new Book Rights Registry authors and publisher can register their works and receive thirty per cent of the sales.

But now it is the turn of the competition and Microsoft and Yahoo are teaming up with the newly formed Open Book Alliance, which is looking to fight against the agreement made between Google and the Publishers.

Some may say that the issue is that Google was just smart enough to figure this out first, or do its competitors have a point? It is a close thing to call.