Amazon enters book digitization jungle with rare-book project
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Blog: Retailer's BookSurge division to partner with libraries and giving them a cut of the revenue generated from selling reproductions of rare books.
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Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a   widely anticipated Internet service offering movies and TV   shows that can be downloaded to personal computers, solidly   moving the online retailer into the nascent market.
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PITTSBURGH -- A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy...
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(InfoWorld) - Google and Amazon.com are planning moves in the electronic-book market which, despite much promise over the years, hasn't met the expectations of book lovers, The New York Times reported Thursday. Amazon plans to launch an e-book reading device called the Kindle in October that will tap into an Amazon e-book store and cost between $400 and $500, the Times reported. Meanwhile, Google, which has a book search engine, will give people the option of paying to obtain the full text of copyright books as part of a service due before the end of the year, according to the newspaper. Google would split the revenue from the service with book publishers. Although e-book technology has been around for years, the concept hasn't caught on as initially expected, as people continue to prefer reading books on paper, rather than on an electronic display. Common complaints about e-books over the years have included discomfort from eye fatigue, inconvenient size, short battery life, and a limited selection of titles. The Times based its report on anonymous sources. Google didn't immediately reply to a request for comment. An Amazon spokesman declined to comment. The Kindle's wireless capabilities will allow it to not only download books and periodicals from Amazon's store but also browse the Web. It has a keyboard and a scroll wheel, according to the Times. Amazon already sells e-books from its main online store as well as from its Mobipocket subsidiary. Google's book search engine displays the full text of books in the public domain, and excerpts of copyright books. For people interested in purchasing books they find, Google provides links to third-party booksellers that carry the titles, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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Google&#39;s project to archive millions of books from top libraries, experts said, is the first major step toward the company&#39;s goal of indexing massive amounts of printed material, music and video.
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Amazon.com Inc  launched an  early version of its highly anticipated digital music download  store, which is seen as a potential rival to Apple Inc's   dominant iTunes system.
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Amazon.com has entered the search-engine wars with the debut of A9.com. The site, which relies on Google search technology, includes personalization features like a running log of sites visited
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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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The world's biggest library, the US Library of Congress, has teamed up with UNESCO and libraries from around the globe in an ambitious project to digitize priceless cultural material and make it available on the Internet.
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More than a million books at Oxford University&#39;s expansive Bodleian Library, including rare first editions, are to be scanned by the search engine Google and posted online for readers around the world.
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By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE   Associated Press writer  SEATTLE -- Amazon.com Inc. launched a digital video downloading service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business.
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Amazon.com Inc, the Web retailer known for selling books, said it had paid about $4 million to buy a handwritten, illustrated book of wizardry by "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling.
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Internet search engine Google&#39;s new search options may make Amazon.com look old fashioned. The service Google Print will allow people to read sections of books to decide whether
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Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday with nearly 2.3 million songs, none of them protected against copying
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Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday with nearly 2.3 million songs, none of them protected against copying.
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Deal will allow companies to digitally authenticate PDFs.
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In what could be a historic move in the history of the internet, Google has announced arrangements with Harvard University, and a handful of public libraries, to digitize parts of their valuable collections and make them available over the public web.