Is Open Access the loser in Google settlement?

The Guardian's Seth Finkelstein is worried that Open Access will be the loser in the Google Book Search settlement: 'battles between behemoth businesses should not be mistaken for friendship to libraries, authors or public interest,' he writes.
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