Brian R. Fitzgerald

Apple’s e-book lawsuit tends to get the lion’s share of attention, and it is easy to forget that Google has been entangled in its own years-long suit involving the publishing industry.

A federal appeals court Monday said that a suit brought by authors trying to stop Google from electronically scanning millions of books shouldn’t have been approved as a class action, Chad Bray writes.

    The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling Monday that it was “premature” to certify a class…