The Immaterial Text: Books as Information and the Google Settlement considered as a Deal

  “One of my colleagues is a quiet, diminutive lady, who might call up the notion of Marion the   Librarian. When she meets people at parties and identifies herself, they sometimes say   condescendingly, "A librarian, how nice. Tell me, what is it like to be a librarian?" She replies,   "Essentially, it is all about money and power."

   Robert Darnton, “Google and the Future of Books,” New York Review of Books Feb.12, 2009

  Daniel Raff is Associate Professor of Management, Associate Professor of History, and Lecturer   in Law at the University of Pennsylvania; he is also a Research Associate of the National   Bureau of Economic Research. Dan teaches courses on general business subjects, transactional   structures and their economic logic, and American business history. His main line of research   in recent years has been the economic and business history of the American book trade. He is   currently working on a monograph about the evolution of channels of distribution for books in   long-twentieth-century America and is contributing chapters to the History of the Oxford   University Press, currently in progress.