4 major textbook publishers sue Google in the US for allegedly hosting pirated copies of their books.

Textbook publishers Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Elsevier have sued Google in the US for allegedly hosting pirated copies of their books, causing financial losses and harming their intellectual property control. The companies accuse Google of failing to remove infringing ads and working with known pirates, while refusing to allow legitimate sellers to advertise standalone digital books.