The mounting opposition to Google’s ambitious plan of a Digital Library has forced Google to find out new ways like concession to handle the situation. Google now says that, it will allow other companies to sell digital copies of out-of-print books if a class-action settlement with U.S. authors and publishers wins court approval.

The opponents have been vehemently opposing the 10 month old settlement. According to them, the deal will offer of Google a digital monopoly on millions of books that are no longer being published.

Google says that it will give Amazon.com and other rivals to use its digital library of out-of-print books. These merchants would be able to get most of the revenue from the sales. The announcement came shortly after the head of the U.S. Copyright Office advised a congressional committee that parts of the settlement violate federal law.

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