The new law is set to force news aggregators to pay for publishing news from Spanish media sources.
"We are surprised that [Google has not] sat down to talk to us and is closing the Google News platform," Jose Gabriel Gonzalez said.
According to Gonzalez, the AEDE respects Google's "business decision," as the company is free to decide for itself. However, he said that publishers were surprised by the Internet giant's exit from the Spanish news market.
"It's a great company, with which we have reached several agreements, but there are things we disagree on," Gonzalez added, claiming that Google and other news aggregators receive indirect profit from publishing news articles.
According to Gonzales, readers will only benefit from having direct access to the media.
For now, AEDE has called on Spanish and European authorities "not to allow harming the users by removing some media from the finder," but has not asked the Spanish government for help to keep the Google News service.
The AEDE is the driving force behind the reform of intellectual property laws. Prominent newspapers like ABC, El Pais, La Vanguardia and El Mundo are members of the association.
On December 11, Google announced it was shutting down its Spanish-language news aggregator.
