As I was getting ready to write my blog post today, I do what I often do: procrastinate. I spent some time surfing the Internet, checking out some sites that I regularly read in the hope of maybe finding some inspiration or something interesting to kill some time. Well, I definitely found something interesting: the Google Books settlement that was proposed in 2008 has been rejected. Some of you may have heard about the settlement before, and some of you may have no idea what I’m talking about. But this is a huge news story in the publishing industry, and rightfully so. Since I am in the publishing industry (albeit on the sidelines now that I am a freelancer), I am hugely interested in how this story is going to play out, so I thought I would bring it to your attention today.