With Google trying all its might to push forward its Book Search initiative, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in an interview with Steven Levy at the Wired Business Conference,
alled for the Google book digitization venture to be sent back to regulators. Clearly, in case the endeavors of the Mountain View, California-based Google bring about the
projected results of turning its digital book collection into a business, the tech giant's exclusive access to digital editions of some out-of-print books may well affect the
Amazon aim of offering all books printed in every language on its Kindle e-readers. Lashing out at Google's book digitization project, Bezos said: "That settlement in our
opinion needs to be revisited and it is being revisited. There are many forces of work looking at that and saying it doesn't seem right that you should do something, kind of
get a prize for violating a large series of copyrights" Along with the objections raised by Amazon, there have been several others groups too that have voiced their criticism
against Google's settlement with copyright holders, saying that the move gives Google rights over "orphan works" - books by anonymous authors. Meanwhile, talking
about Kindle, Bezos said that the 300,000 digital books available on the e-reader comprise nearly 35 percent of total book sales, and added that the company is "startled
and astonished" by the sales statistics!












