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Judge Rejects Amazon's Move to Block Preliminary Approval of Google Book Settlement

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By Jason Boog

Last week, a federal judge rejected Amazon.com (AMZN)’s request to prevent “preliminary approval” of the Google Books settlement–telling the eBook giant to wait until next year to voice objections.

Here’s more from Reuters: “In a Tuesday ruling, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said he planned to conduct a ‘thorough fairness analysis’ of the settlement at a February 18, 2010 hearing and Amazon could argue its case then.”

All year Google (GOOG) and the Authors Guild have struggled to

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