Gary Price has also written about ebrary in the past that offers books for purchase and, I believe, some limited downloads for free. Unfortunately, there's no way to browse through a directory of books that are available.
Other alternatives Gary wrote about include NetLibrary and ebrary. The Google Blog announced that they added a link to some books named "Find it in a Library". I have been unable to find a book in Google Book Search with a link named "Find it in a...
Search and Read Full Text Books Online via ebrary The full text of the speech is here (thanks John). I have no intention on arguing the intellectual property/copyright/fair use issues that the program brings to the forefront.
Access to more the 20,000 NEW books (no limit on how much you can view online) is available from ebrary. Read Most of O'Reilly's Hacks Books for Free Using Google post. In reality, I think he's just finding that Google Book Search operates...
I've recently posted about two other services, currently available, that offer the full text (no limit on how much you can read) called ebrary and NetLibrary. Tomorrow, the Google Library Project will be one year old.
Gary has been blogging about several online services, such as Google Book Search and ebrary, that allow you to search, and in some cases read and print thousands of online books, often for little or no charge.
Unlike ebrary and other services, NetLibrary doesn't offer a program for individual users, but rather provides its services through more than 13,000 libraries around the world. Several weeks ago, I wrote about ebrary, a company offering thousands...
I've also provided overviews of both ebrary and NetLibrary that I hope you take a look at. Talk about online books seem to be a very frequent topic of conversation in the search world today. In the past few weeks we've not only posted about the...
Last week I wrote about ebrary, a company offering thousands of full text books (no limit on how much you can read) that licenses new books (in-copyright) to many companies, libraries, and other organizations.
Google Print has stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy, but another company has been offering online book search capabilities, with the blessings of publishers, for years.ebrary has been around since 1999.
If online books are of interest, this post from last week about a service named ebrary might also be of interest. The NY Times article: Googling Literature: The Debate Goes Public, reports on the Google Print/Book Search debate that Chris blogged...
Read Full Text Books Online via ebrary Google Story," a new book about Google, how getting back into Google and Yahoo if banned for spamming is easier if you're an important site, Google renaming its Urchin web analytics tool Google Analytics and...
Search and Read Full Text Books Online via ebrary. Yahoo Shopping's shoposphere is a new form of social commerce where the Yahoo user community can get involved in commerce without having to worry about any infrastructure.
Create a ebrary Shop account The service is called ebrary that has been around since 1999.ebrary offers numerous services including one that lets you search and read over 20,000 in-copyright books for free.
Access also available for individual purchase.ebrary Amazon planning to sell electronic books next year, here are some alternative places where you can get them right now: Digital Book Index title records from more than 1800 commercial and non...
Companies like ebrary (some awesome content and software) and NetLibrary are also in the game. I can't say that I'm totally surprised. When Google first announced Google Print and then expanded the program to Google Print for Libraries last...
NetLibraryand ebrary have been doing it for years and in many cases allow users to read the full text, in some cases print the text, and annotate what they read. This Reuters article out of Germany: Publishers to build own online book network...
For now, Google Libraries is a research tool in a general sense (it's also a tool to sell books) but not a research tool where the full text is available and users can print, annotate, etc like with , ebrary, etc.
Libraries purchase access to digital copies of both new and old full text books via services like ebrary and NetLibrary. As I've posted earlier, I've found some of the arguments odd given that search engines have long indexed copyrighted material...
Unfortunately, the article doesn't include any mention of some of the impressive digital book sevices provided by ebrary and NetLibrary that are also accessible online. Although the Google Library program has grabbed most of the headlines since it...
