Givler says he wrote the letter because managers at Google would give him canned or evasive answers to questions he and other publishers posed.

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But Givler says the company has never fully addressed the propriety of scanning the books in the first place, regardless of whether they let publishers opt out on the back end.

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If Google scans copyrighted books into its library database, the digital copies might be misused and laws will be broken, says Peter Givler, executive director of the Association of American University Presses.

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