Book Thrown at Google

Updated from 3:40 p.m.

Google (GOOG), whose corporate philosophy is to do no evil, is being accused by a society of authors and three individual authors of doing just that.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York, the writers accuse Google of "massive copyright infringement" for its plans to scan and copy books through its Google Library initiative, according to a statement posted on the Web site of the Authors Guild. Former New York Times editorial writer Herbert Mitgang, children's book author Betty Miles and poet and critic Daniel Hoffman are also parties to the suit. ...