1) Your book is available for "Limited Preview" only, not "Full View." Google will let users search within the book, and will show them a limited number of pag

1) Your book is available for "Limited Preview" only, not "Full View." Google will let users search within the book, and will show them a limited number of pages. It won't let them read the book from start to finish. (I was able to read 18 pages.) Next to the "preview" it displays links to buy the book from various retailers. 2) Do you think Google hurts websites by letting people search their contents and see excerpts in the search results? How many websites would benefit by using robots.txt to prevent Google from linking to them? Is web publishing as an industry helped or harmed by the availability of web search engines? 3) This page explains the Authors Guild settlement from Google's point of view: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/ http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/ Here's a good summary of thoughtful criticism about the settlement: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090204/0248153640.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090204/0248153640.shtml and a thoughtful take by lawyer and copyright activist (and Creative Commons founder) Lawrence Lessig: http://lessig.org/blog/2008/10/on_the_google_book_search_agre.html http://lessig.org/blog/2008/10/on_the_google_book_search_agr... Here's where you can opt out of the settlement class (retaining the right to sue Google on your own, relinquishing any benefits Google has promised in the settlement, and giving you an option to remove your book from the index): http://www.googlebooksettlement.com/ http://www.googlebooksettlement.com/ 4) Personally I think the settlement has its flaws, but if I were an author I'd rather have my work searchable at Google than not, including under the current settlement terms.