I&#x27;m going to make an argument for the Author&#x27;s Guild even if I disagree with them...<p>Google is taking books and digitising them. That within its own right isn&#x27;t illegal. But Google then takes the digitised books and utilises that content for profit (every time you click buy, Google gets a cut of the sale) and what&#x27;s more the court has withheld the author&#x27;s ability to decide how they want their books to be advertised&#x2F;presented.<p>I could scan in books, present content without context, and misrepresent what a book is trying to say. For example I could create a climate skeptic website that takes pro-climate change books and misquotes them into supporting me. But because of this &quot;transformative change&quot; from physical to digital, suddenly I am allowed to do that.<p>Every time Google quotes part of a book without context they&#x27;re changing the meaning of that book. The author has lost their right to stop that from happening. Essentially Google has committed libel against authors by quoting them without context or permission.