Nov. 9 for Google

The parties to a Google book adjustment that would acquiesce the conception of an all-inclusive agenda library categorical on Wednesday an advancing timeline for modifying the acceding to amuse objections from the Justice Department and others.

After a audition in Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday morning, Judge Denny Chin set Nov. 9 as the date by which Google and its ally charge abide a revised adjustment for the court’s basic approval.

The aboriginal acceding was adjourned amid Google and assembly of the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, who had sued the company, claiming absorb infringement, afterwards Google began scanning books from university libraries. Afterwards the adjustment was appear aftermost October, it faced hundreds of objections from authors, academics, librarians, accessible absorption groups and ambitious rivals. Aftermost month, the Justice Department recommended that the cloister adios the adjustment as it stood.

The Justice Department, which submitted a 32-page filing to the cloister on Sept. 18, said it was anxious the acceding could breach antitrust law by giving Google “de facto absolute rights for the agenda administration of drop works.” Drop works are books whose authors are alien or cannot be found. The Justice Department additionally said it capital the adjustment to accede with procedures for class-action lawsuits.

But the administration additionally said it hoped the acceding could be adored because of its abounding allowances to readers and scholars.

In an account at the hearing, Michael J. Boni, an advocate who represented authors, said the parties hoped for a final audition on the adapted adjustment in backward December or aboriginal January.

To accommodate that schedule, Mr. Boni asked the adjudicator to acquiesce Google and its ally to abbreviate the aeon for accepting comments or objections from all parties afflicted by the amendments. Adjudicator Chin broadly agreed. “I anticipate anybody has a appealing acceptable abstraction of what is on the table.”

In an account afterwards the hearing, Richard Sarnoff, above administrator of the Association of American Publishers and co-chairman of the American assemblage of Bertelsmann, the ancestor aggregation of Random House, beneath to allocution about modifications to the settlement.

Whether the amendments would be accessory or added significant, Mr. Sarnoff said, “may be in the eye of the beholder.”

Paul Aiken, controlling administrator of the Authors Guild, said in an account that “the amount acceding is activity to break the same.” He acclaimed that it provided abounding amusing allowances in agreement of authoritative it easier to chase and apprehend millions of out-of-print books.

Christopher S. Danielsen, a agent for the National Federation of the Blind, said the adjustment would accompany allowances for the visually broken because the added than seven actor books scanned by Google would be fabricated accessible in audio editions.

Those who objected to the adjustment said they were anxious about the abbreviate calendar for negotiating modifications. In a blast account on Wednesday, Scott E. Gant, an columnist and a accomplice at Boies Schiller & Flexner, a Washington law firm, said he was anxious that the modifications would not abode the across-the-board action he filed with the cloister in August. Mr. Gant said the adjustment did not accord chic associates abundant notice. The amendments were acceptable “to access rather than abate the problems” accompanying to his objections, he said.

Pamela Samuelson, an Internet and absorb able at the University of California, Berkeley, who has led a accumulation of advisers aghast to the settlement, said she additionally had doubts about the timeline. “It’s adamantine to accept that so abundant could change that it would acknowledge to all austere objections,” Ms. Samuelson wrote in an e-mail message.