Google stresses that any publisher can keep its books from being digitized simply by sending a list of titles to Google. But that's not good enough for Lynne Rienner...

Rather than compiling a list of her company's 1,200 titles ("a waste of my staff's time"), Rienner fired off an angry letter to CEO Schmidt. Google responded with a letter agreeing not to copy any of her books. Rienner is unmollified. She worries that she will be cut out of some future digital moneymaking opportunity. "Books are my unique content," she says. "I'm sure the smart people at Google are busy dreaming up all kinds of ways to make money off them."

Can we just say, "Oh my god, Magnum!" Repeat after us, Ms. Rienner: "Google could sell my authors' books for me." I hope none of Rienner's signed authors read that article; they might realize that she just cut them out of the only free marketing they'll ever get.

How Google can make - or break - your company [Fortune Small Business]
Earlier: Google Bitch #2: The Wispy Web Startup [Valleywag]
Earlier: Google Bitch #1: The Clueless Retailer [Valleywag]

Damn, don't you wish you got into Fortune every time you got a competitor? The magazine does a great job building Google as a bully, saying the company "makes no apologies for crushing small competitors."

Of course, by "crushing," Fortune means "launching a product similar to, but clearly less finessed than, and with shakier tech support." Landis's company, Mach5, may be complaining; meanwhile, leading analytics company Sitemeter is doing just fine despite the competition.

What did we learn from Google Bitch #2? If you can't take the heat, get out and stop bitchin'.

How Google can make - or break - your company [Fortune Small Business]
Earlier: Google Bitches Day: Celebrating "victims" of the world's biggest search company [Valleywag]

Google Bitch #1: The Clueless Retailer

Our first featured whiner, entrepreneur Allan Keiter, tells the sad story of losing a high Google search rank.

In the months after he fell prey to the Google dance, Keiter saw his revenues plunge some 20%. When he contacted Google for an explanation he was simply told that the algorithm was secret sauce. "There was nothing I could do," he says. "They make changes in their ivory tower, and it ripples through to the little guy."

Let's step back a bit. Allan built an online business. A good chunk of his profit came from free traffic through Google. Had Allan watched where his business's money came from, maybe he'd have learned about Google's methods before they wiped out his revenue. Then he could have optimized his site for Google instead of crying about ivory towers to a spinoff magazine.

Tune in later for Google Bitch #2: The Wispy Web Startup.

How Google can make - or break - your company [Fortune Small Business]