I have been against the Google Books Settlement.
So I’m glad to see Judge Chin also rejected the Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) citing several problems I had with it too.
First, let me thank my fellow published Copyright-holding writers:
Further, an extremely high number of class members — some 6800 — opted out.
I’d also like to call out writer Ursula K. Le Guin for raising the visibility of this issue and resigning from the Author’s Guild over it. That took both foresight and guts!