Not so, says the Association of American Publishers, which is filing the suit.
The Association of American Publishers is suing Google over its plans to scan the contents of several major libraries, fearing large-scale copyright infringement.
According to the latest numbers from the Association of American Publishers, revenue for ebooks for some of the biggest categories grew by 41% in 2012.
FORBES: Ebook Growth Slows in 2012 to 'Only' 41%; What Does It Mean for the Publishing Industry?
The Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild disagreed.
The decision caps two years of painstaking negotiations between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (who had sued Google in 2005 over the project).
The monthly numbers coming out of the Association of American Publishers that track the size and growth of the publishing industry have been charting a slowdown in e-book growth for much of 2012.
Barbara Meredith, vice-president of professional and scholarly publishing at the Association of American Publishers, a trade group, has said that a demand for open access to research findings could undermine the sustainability of the publishing industry, and has promised to lobby vigorously against this happening.
"We were outside the main Justice building, " said Eleanor Lewis, executive director of the American Association of Legal Publishers.
But statistics released this month by the American Association of Publishers offered some encouraging news about the American book market.
Overall U.S. book sales, which include school textbooks, have averaged 4.4% growth annually since 2002, according to the American Association of Publishers.
In April this year the Open Access Trust and the Internet Archive applied to the US courts to join the settlement but this application was rejected by Judge Denny Chin and only Google is included in the agreement with the Author's Guild and the American Association of Publishers.
He also pushed Graham to become the first female chairman of the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
There is a national opt-out site run by the Association of Directory Publishers that will allow any American to opt out of receiving directories.
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