In a new filing, Google opposes Hachette and Cengage’s motion to join a class action of writers against the tech giant. Google argues that the publishers’ intervention is “untimely” since they could have joined the “widely reported suit” any time after it began in July 2023, including when Google subpoenaed Hachette in March 2025. Allowing the publishers to intervene in the case “would massively disrupt the proceedings and prejudice Google,” the company says. “If book publishers Cengage and Hachette…want to present ‘their own evidence and arguments’ about how Google supposedly infringed their copyrights, …they can file their own case,” the …