(huffingtonpost.com): Why would Google spend all that money -- millions to digitize, more millions to litigate the case it had to know would come, and more millions to settle that case -- for what will amount to a library lending and ebook business? Keep in mind that Google's revenue alone last year was $23.6 billion. This is more than half the $40.3 billion in total revenue generated in the United States by more than 100,000 publishers. And not one dollar of Google's revenue came from publishing books. It came from the enormous ad revenues generated by Google's search and Ad Sense business.
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