Google Library meets Bookstore
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Search engine Google has plans to introduce a new service that lets users search complete texts of books and helps publishers sell them.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has expanded its controversial book search service to allow people to download whole copies of books in PDF format to their computers, with the ability to print them out. The feature will go live Wednesday at theÂ service's Web site, said Adam Smith, group product manager of Google Book Search and Google Scholar. The books available for download will only be those that are in the public domain and thus not protected by copyright, Smith said. Until now, people have been able to read these public-domain books on the Google Book Search Web site, but not download and print them, he said. Google will not allow downloading of copyrighted books, not even those for which it has obtained permission from the copyright holders to display their full text, Smith said. The vast majority of the public-domain books available for download have been scanned as part of the library project of the Google Book Search service, Smith said. For the project,Â Google is scanningÂ portions of the collections of some of the world's largest academic libraries, including Google partners Harvard University, Stanford University, and Oxford University. However, critics say Google can't scan copyrighted books it obtains from the libraries unless it gets permission from the copyright holders. The issue is at the center ofÂ two separate lawsuits brought against GoogleÂ last year, one by The Authors Guild and three authors, and another one by The Association of American Publishers on behalf of five of its members: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Pearson Education, Penguin Group USA, Simon & Schuster, and John Wiley & Sons.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Google is launching a new service to make books and other printed materials searchable online, the Internet search engine company said Wednesday.
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This week Google Inc. down in Mountain View, wading in dough from its stock offering, announced it would use some of the money to put millions of volumes from the country&#39;s great libraries online where anybody can use them.
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Google reached agreements with several major research libraries to digitize the content of thousands of books in their archives, adding momentum to the search giant&#39;s effort to catalog vast amounts of offline information in addition to Web pages, the
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Book collections from five of the world&#39;s top libraries are to be made available on the internet by Google. The Oxford University library, the New York Public Library and three big US university libraries
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The Internet search company Google plans to put millions of library books online and make them searchable. This week, Google announced a project with the New York Public Library and the libraries of four universities.
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Google plans to begin converting the holdings of leading research libraries into digital files that would be searchable online.
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Google Inc. is expanding its territory from bytes to books. The world's largest Internet search engine said yesterday it will soon begin a program to index books and bound periodicals in the libraries of Harvard University.
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Google Inc. GOOG.O unveiled on   Wednesday a Web site dedicated to literacy, pulling together   its books, video, mapping and blogging services to help   teachers and educational organizations share reading resources.
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Online search leader Google Inc. is becoming more bookish. Expanding a program introduced last year, Google is inviting publishers to include entire books in its index, enabling people to peak at the contents before making a decision on whether to buy.
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WASHINGTON - Google wants to save you a trip to the library. The search engine that revolutionized how people use the internet has teamed up with some of the world&#39;s greatest libraries to put their books in your living room.
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Eleven Midwestern university libraries have agreed to work with Google Inc. to create digital versions of up to 10 million books in their collections.
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A global virtual library is one step nearer today after Google, the internet search group, announced it is working on a project to digitally scan the collections at seven libraries and make them available online.
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[Technology India]: Washington, Dec 15 :Google, one of the largest internet search engines, will soon start a service for gathering Books from some of the world&#39;s largest academic libraries, scan them and make them instantly searchable by their website.
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Books from some of the world&#39;s largest academic libraries are to be scanned and made instantly searchable by Google. The internet search engine has revealed plans to scan the whole of Michigan and Stanford
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Well, boot up, bibliophile. That vision took a big step toward becoming reality this week, as Internet search-engine firm Google and five big libraries announced plans to create a giant online reading room.