I think this is one case where the end of the product is not Google's fault. Books got enormous push back from legacy publishers. They also had trouble with co

I think this is one case where the end of the product is not Google's fault. Books got enormous push back from legacy publishers. They also had trouble with copyright law around orphaned works, but copyright protection increasing over time from 14yrs to 90yrs after the death of the author (and moving from requiring registration to being default) really made it hard for them to do what they wanted. It's a shame that something initially intended to "promote the progress of science and useful arts" is now used to inhibit it.