Google Launches eBookstore: Buy Books, Read Books, Shelve Books in the Cloud by Jonathan Allen Google Books' "Page Not Found" is a Whale Fail, Not a Fail Whale - ReadWriteWeb Google may have breached Australia's Telecommunications (Interception and...
CNET News Google was expected to begin selling digital books by June/July, but it never materialized. Overview of changes, including improved message replies, access to quoted text, message actions now stick to the top of the screen, and limited...
With a background in offline publishing and book retail and 30+ published books to my credit, I'm an ardent supporter of copyright protection. Search engines are called to disclose which code to deploy in a given robots.txt file to deny their...
This includes nearly everything printed in England between 1700-1800, and over 220,000 books and works. Both Gale and ProQuest are trying to make strides towards more open access, by helping librarians deliver extensive catalogs, an array of...
Ho, Ho, Ho - Holiday Shopping Search Skyrockets - This year's Cyber Monday numbers shattered the record books, with significant increases of online shopping site visits and a reported $600 in online retail sales, up about 42% over last year.
USE CASE B: BOOKS Book Publisher B invites search engine operators X, Y and Z to index the full text of his latest college text books. Content Access Protocol" that they feel will head off conflicts with search engines.
Search for books, and you'll see this happening with Amazon. Similarly, as you begin to sell books or build out the Easier access to all your tools. You helped create the caching mess by just assuming it was legal to reprint web pages online...
Drummond's response (listed above) leads me to also believe that one day Google will be selling access to some of these full text books. However, as we've pointed out on SEW Blog several times, the searcher who finds in-copyright material (that's...
More Online Books Resources - NetLibrary and The Online Books Page are two excellent services for searching for and reading online books, offering access free of charge. HarperCollins To Digitize Own Books; Unclear How That Will Feed Into Book...
Transcripts and Video: Authors of Books About Google Interviewed on TV - In the past few days, the authors of both recent books about Google and web search have been interviewed on TV or featured in TV news reports.MORE”
More Online Books Resources - NetLibrary and The Online Books Page are two excellent services for searching for and reading online books, offering access free of charge. HarperCollins To Digitize Own Books; Unclear How That Will Feed Into Book...
In some ways, it still retains the flavor of a public library—in addition to a hierarchical subject directory, it includes sections for "Ready Reference" (encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs and so on), the Reading Room (links to web sites that...
NetLibrary and The Online Books Page are two excellent services for searching for and reading online books, offering access free of charge. I once again want to mention the incredible browsable and searchable database with the deceptively...
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. The group wants to build an online library of millions of old books and...
Newsmaker: Amazon's Bezos hits the books. FlightAware offers flight tracking, data analysis, statistics, and graphs, mobile access and a ton of other features. Most services require a free subscription to access.
Also, many fee-based services have been online for years that provide, free, searchable access to thousands of in-copyright books. Individual access to more than 20,000 full text books available. The Online Books Page from the University of...
Online Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania. Google book scanning still on hold from News.com has more follow up on the resumption of scanning, as well as how well-known quotes from some classic books fail to bring up these books in...
Microsoft, yes good old Gates, Ballmer and crew, are getting in on the online books digitization game and more. As noted earlier, Microsoft also wants to scan the full text of in-copyright books (a list of participating libraries is not available...
Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books. Online merchant reviews - fact or fiction? The problem with a lot of online merchant reviews is that they are heavily gamed by the merchants and sometimes by their...
Again, while selected snippets from books would be useful, many library catalogs already provide access to non-bibliographic info like author bios, book covers, reviews, tables-of-contents, indexes, and more.
