The agreement will allow Google to digitize and scan books from Hachette's library of copyrighted but out-of-print texts, The New York Times reported. Hachette Livre, the publishing company that holds a quarter of the French market, signed an...
Google will then take and digitize those works, making them available for non-commercial use to anyone who cares to take a gander on Google Books. The Google Books project has scanned over 12 million books, largely thanks to the 40-plus libraries...
Aside from Street View, Google has faced numerous challenges in Germany, including fights over Google Analytics and Google's efforts to digitize books by German authors. Google yesterday announced that 244,237 out of 8,458,084 households (2.89...
Google is partnering with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage to digitize up to 1 million out-of-copyright books. We're not the only ones who have seen the need to bring the world's books into digital form.
Now I can understand the economics, as it costs a lot to collect, curate, digitize and share these tremendous holdings and the libraries pay for all this to be done. This includes nearly everything printed in England between 1700-1800, and over 220...
With the help of Kirtas Technologies to digitize up to 2,400 pages per hour, Microsoft and Cornell will be adding many public domain books to Live Book Search. Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search
With the help of Kirtas Technologies to digitize up to 2,400 pages per hour, Microsoft and Cornell will be adding many public domain books to Live Book Search. The Live Search Blog announced that Microsoft has added Cornell University Library to...
Google wasn't the first to do digitize books, but they certainly accelerated it. But ultimately, I'm glad they've kickstarted efforts to bring books into the digital age. The vast majority of our knowledge is locked in books, and so few of them...
First, Google's efforts to digitize materials both public domain and in-copyright are noble and should be applauded. Google Book Search currently treats all books published after 1922 as protected by copyright, except for books to which no...
Google's Library Project (to digitize materials founnd in five large libraries and then offer snippets from that material) is a part of the complete GBS program. They already offer some e-books and documents for purchase and downloading.
Library to digitize many historical resources. It hasn't escaped the mainstream press either, nor the authors of recent books on the industry (John Battelle, David Vise), that the search marketing industry is about people and the way they interact...
HarperCollins To Digitize Own Books; Unclear How That Will Feed Into Book Search Engines - HarperCollins To Digitize And Control Its Book Content from the Wall Street Journal looks at HarperCollins saying it will digitize its active backlist of...
HarperCollins To Digitize Own Books; Unclear How That Will Feed Into Book Search Engines - HarperCollins To Digitize And Control Its Book Content from the Wall Street Journal looks at HarperCollins saying it will digitize its active backlist of...
HarperCollins To Digitize And Control Its Book Content from the Wall Street Journal looks at HarperCollins saying it will digitize its active backlist of 20,000 titles and up 3,500 books per year. So is HarperCollins going to put the full text...
What's crucial to remember is that Google Print (recently renamed Google Book Search) itself was around before Google's announcement to digitize the full or partial holdings of five large university libraries.
In an exclusive Information World Review interview: BL opens up to Microsoft and reveals revenue aims, Alistair Baker, Microsoft's UK managing director, talks about both parties [The BL and Microsoft] investigating new business opportunities in...
While yet another move to digitize works is to be applauded, it adds to an already crowded field of projects underway. The first step of the WDL will be to work out technological issues on how to digitize the content, establish standards and create...
While the academic and library research value of the Google Print project is massive and Google should be commended, it's important to remember that Google's plan to digitize this massive amount of material is about selling books (in various...
Microsoft To Digitize 100,000 Books from the British Library. Google's personalized search reorders search results based on your history of past searches, giving more weight to topics that interest you.
Ridolfo is part of a massive undertaking to digitize the world's books. In a Wall Street Journal article published today titled: Building an Online Library, One Volume at a Time, you'll meet Liz Ridolfo, a scanner at UT who is digitizing books.
