Google's book publishing revolution

Surely, many of you have heard about Google's initiative to scan printed books and the ability to index them on the Internet. Many also probably heard about what this led to - to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from the union of book publishers and authors of books in the United States. Today, finally, the judgment was rendered.
So, Google still managed to make a deal with the union, amounting to 125 million dollars. Despite this huge amount, Sergey Brin himself calls this deal “a huge leap”, and the president of the Publisher Union of the USA Paul Aiken - “the largest in the history of American book publishing”.
However, the main intrigue is not the news, but the fact that Google will now allow not only to find interesting works from text passages, but also to buy them page by page ! Now nothing is even known about the approximate prices, but sources already report that Google intends to provide this service outside the United States, for which they are already negotiating with European publishers.

Source: Compulenta