I think he is bitching too much. Nobody is forced to join a class action lawsuit's judgement. If you do not want Google to touch your books, then you can simply

I think he is bitching too much. Nobody is forced to join a class action lawsuit's judgement. If you do not want Google to touch your books, then you can simply decline to be included in the class and go sue Google by yourself. The theory that Google is the only entity that can do this project (which seems to be the main point of his article) is also wrong. The author's guild settled with Google for over 100 mil. Why wouldn't they settle with someone else for a similar sum? They probably would. In fact they would probably be willing to settle for less with the second person. Also the technology to digitize all books would probably be cheaper the second time around too. So if somebody else wants to throw the same resource in the task as Google did, I am sure they can get a another digital of all books.