Just to introduce some additional facts.

The rules to penalize for not providing health care don't kick in until 50 employees as you noted. However, the penalty is only for every employee over 50. So if you have 52 employees, you can opt out and only pay the penalty for two employees. Most small business owners are going to be largely unaffected. Of course this will largely depend on how they define employee. Businesses with many part time employees may suffer if an employee is defined based on part/full time status but merely the fact that they worked for the employer.

I have to agree with this 100%.

There are jobs, you just have to be willing to move, and that's the catch-22. Assuming you have the potential mobility to move, I can virtually guarantee there is a job out there for you.

Of course getting your foot in the door to get them to take you seriously is the next challenge. For that excellent past performance and networking are always helpful.

Good luck hunting.

Is it just way too obvious to point out that the physical copies of the books still exist? That Google is in fact not a monopoly in this regard? That any idiot with sufficient time and money could go out and replicate Google's effort?

I'd say it's a business opportunity waiting to happen. Obviously as has already been posted, the publishers were to do high quality scans of all their materials they could become great competitors to Google.

But clearly this is too obvious a solution.