ms. barker on twitter at kim underscore barker. >> well, with federal judge denny chin's rejection of the 2008 google book settlement, the future of a complete online library is in question. joining us now to discuss this issue is sarah weinman. she's the news editor of "publishers marketplace." ms. weinman, if you could begin by giving us a brief overview of what the google book settlement was, and who are the parties involved? >> sure. it arose from an original lawsuit that was filed by the association of american publishers and the authors' guild. they objected to the fact that, in their view, google was scanning primarily out-of-print and orphan works, those works whose copyright status was not entirely known, and they felt that this wholesale scanning was infringement, and they didn't like that. so they sued. as it made it way through the courts, however, the parties all decided to create what is known as the google book settlement, and what that would entail is coming up with some means of giving copyright holders some monetary value for their work. and what they elected to do was t