EU regulators should look into the book settlement that Google Inc reached with a group of U.S. writers and publishers last October because the deal will create a de facto monopoly, European opponents to the book deal said on Friday.
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A hearing held by the European Commission on the matter on September 7 and attended by interested parties and Google officials failed to answer critics' questions, the groups said in a letter to EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes and six other commissioners.
Signatories to the letter include Microsoft-sponsored lobbying group ICOMP, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, German lobbying group SuMa and CEPIC, which represents about 1,000 picture associations, agencies and libraries in Europe.
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Google rejected the criticism, saying it had responded to all the questions fielded at the hearing and had met numerous times with interested parties.
"To say we chose not to answer questions is simply wrong. We have always been happy to answer questions about the settlement, including from organizations like ICOMP," the company said in a statement
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