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. The effort is similar to how the Google Books project got its start in the U.S. Though, considering how the Google Books...
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. Odd Post To An Official Google Blog Raises Security Concerns
Google wasn't the first to do digitize books, but they certainly accelerated it. The vast majority of our knowledge is locked in books, and so few of them are searchable. But ultimately, I'm glad they've kickstarted efforts to bring books into...
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.
The first step of the WDL will be to work out technological issues on how to digitize the content, establish standards and create a roadmap for progress. While yet another move to digitize works is to be applauded, it adds to an already crowded...
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 has left Google Labs and is now available to users on 38 Google domains in addition to Google.com. Google's personalized search reorders search results based...
MSN announced that it would digitize about 100,000 books through a partnership with the British Library. Microsoft and the British Library stressed that they will be choosing books only from the older end of the library's vast collection of 13...
Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books. Google's BigTable. Google Attracts More Brand Advertisers. Customising Google maps at drop of a pin. Google Addresses Blogger Splog Spam Blog Issue.
Btw, all of this is not to be confused with a European program to digitize materials that we blogged about here. The German association of book publishers is planning to build a network by next year that will allow the full texts of their books to...
A great city that's home to the University of Michigan (Larry Page's alma mater) and an academic library that Google plans to completely digitize, Another new Googleplex? An off-campus location to scan books?
