California Lawyer has an excellent, relatively unbiased, and very long write-up about the legal ramifications of the ongoing Google Books issue.

Thank io9.

Make the jump for the full-size, book-eating Google monster that graced the cover.

The original io9 post also links to some sketch-ups from the artist’s site. One commenter on the io9 article compares Google’s conflict with publishers to the Atari/Tetris issues of the 1980s. (Geeky Tetris history lesson here.)

Big ol’ monster: