Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, and McGraw Hill have filed a lawsuit accusing Google of promoting unauthorized copies of their textbooks by allowing pirate sites to continue to run ads even after receiving thousands of takedown requests.
  • Unruffled@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Omg poor publishers not able to make a 2000% markup on their textbooks as per usual - think about the CEOs’ bonuses guys!

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