Going, Going . . . .

One of the blogs I follow is the Writer Beware Blogs!. A recent post by Victoria Strauss, It's Official: DOJ Investigates Google Book Settlement discusses the complex Google Books Settlement, which requires a number of authors and publishers to make a crucial decision to opt in or out of the settlement, before fairness hearings and the results of a DOJ investigation are complete.

As I don't have any published novels and I'm not a member of the Authors' Guild, I don't (to the best of my knowledge) have an official stake in the issue, but it's possible that some of you, Fair Readers and Steadfast Friends, may. So, you may want to go check out Victoria Strauss' take on this and consider your options.

ETA Here's a very different take on the Google Books Settlement, courtesy of Lisa Gold: Research Maven: "…those lost books of the last century can be brought back to life and made searchable, discoverable, and citable…".