Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House are asking a court to reject Internet Archive’s request to access huge volumes of data regarding the sales performance of books. IA wants to counter the publishers’ lawsuit by showing that its lending library did no harm but the publishers describe the request as not only “burdensome in the extreme” but also “irrelevant”.
Source: Publishers: Internet Archive’s Sales Data Demand is “Burdensome and Irrelevant” * TorrentFreak