The monopoly giant that is Google, is now preparing for yet another legal battle over their latest plans to create the world biggest digital library. With the court case taking place in New York and with 26 interested parties given to outline any objections, critics are saying that this latest deal would hand more power to Google and take less away from online book sales.

To date Google has scanned around 12 million books to date, so soon we may see a world where everything we need is on a computer, from shopping, music, tv and now books.

Although first of all Google has to battle through much of the copyright laws that held up their earlier similar plans in 2004, when they were sued by Authors Guild of America and the Association of American Publishers, for "massive copyright infringement."

By 2005 Google agreed it would pay $125m (£77m) to create a Book Rights Registry where authors and publisher could register their works and receive compensation. At stake are the rights to over 25m books.

In a statement Google's spokesman Gabriel Stricker said they wanted to "realise the goal of significantly expanding online acess to works through Google book search, an ambitious effort to make millions of books searchable via the web."

Further reading can be found on the BBC Technology website.