As an author or maybe as another representative of my NY based publisher, I received a note last week IMPORTANT UPDATE: The deadline to claim Books and Inserts for Cash Payments has been extended from January 5, 2010 to March 31, 2011 etc. The definition of a book seems to be that it is Commercially Available: The Amended Settlement clarifies that a Book is Commercially Available if it is being offered for sale new by a seller anywhere in the world to a buyer in the United States, Canada, the UK or Australia. The Amended Settlement now provides that Google will not display any Book it classifies as not Commercially Available for at least 60 days after the date of that classification, or the Effective Date, whichever is later. The Amended Settlement also now provides that, if a Rightsholder asserts that a Book is Commercially Available, Google will not display the Book unless Google successfully challenges that assertion in a dispute.
Hey Google, I would like to surrender my status in this class-action and allow you to display and sell my book! Hey Amazon and the rest, I would like to see (anything) about sales statistics! Didn’t we learn everything necessary to enable publishing 2.0 from the music industry?
Read more at Jon Fisher’s Blog
