Google Books had 'previews' of books that included large swaths of the content. They claimed to only publish this with the author's permission but as I understa

Google Books had 'previews' of books that included large swaths of the content. They claimed to only publish this with the author's permission but as I understand it the way that permission was granted was quite sneaky and authors didn't always know what they were agreeing to. It does not matter whether the lawsuit was dismissed or not, Google practices harmed authors and that's why the Authors Guild sued them.