Businessweek has a decent article which tell us that book publishers are dead set against Google Book Search!

Google also has managed to rile up the publishing industry. Book publishers and authors have been up in arms against Google since early 2005, after the company announced its ambitious Google Print for Libraries project, now called Google Books. The project included plans to scan millions of books from five of the world’s largest libraries and make them searchable on Google’s Web site — including copyrighted texts.

It also highlights the possible partnerships against Google.

Good read