Google to pay $125 million in online books settlement

Google has finally reached a settlement with authors and publishers that will allow user to search through books,read passages, and buy books through Google Books.

It will cost Google $125 million to create the Book Rights Registry. This will allow authors and publishers to register their work and receive money from subscriptions or book sales.

At first Google`s Google’s Print Library Project, was supposed to get three to four lines of a book, but now plans to bring upa as much as a full page. On-top of that libraries will be offered a portal where users are allowed to print pages for a fee.