Feds Checking Out Google Books Deal [Digital Daily]

googbooksThe Department of Justice’s inquiry into Google’s proposed book-search settlement continues on apace with various publishers today claiming to have received civil investigative demands from the agency’s antitrust division. These are simple requests for information and indicative of little more than the DOJ’s concern that the settlement might impair competition in the market for digital books. That said, that the DOJ even has such concerns is problematic for Google.

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