Association of American Publishers Sues Google over Library Digitization Plan and Google's Library Scanning Project Heads to Court (action by the Authors French publisher sues Google for piracy from AFP covers how a French publishing group...
Leads To Linking, Indexing Dispute: Book publishers upset with Google's library scanning program are just the latest in groups upset with being indexed by search engines. I spent some time exploring the library, having been a big library user since
BBC Money Programme Documentary On Google - The BBC's Money Programme did a big look at Google that runs the range of all things Google, from the company's start to issues such as controversy over Google's library scanning program and click fraud...
Via Searchblog, I read the excerpts from a speech by the President of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, about Google Book Search or to be more specific Google's Library Program. Will people make the extra effort to get the book they...
Over on ResourceShelf we've posted about Libraries411.com, a new mashup that combines public library location info (and more) for more than 20,000 libraries in the US and Canada and mashes the info with both Google Maps or Yahoo Maps.
The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service Google Knocked For Allowing Off Topic Ford Explorer Ads - Ford Explorer Teaches Me to Ignore Google AdWords Ads from Aaron over at SEO Book looks at Ford Explorer ads...
Establishing New Trust Signals In Search: Moving To Trusted Links Joins Open Content Alliance, A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut, Germany: Publishers Plan Online Book Service, Details about Europe's i2010 Digital Libraries Program...
In reality, this book wasn't scanned through the library program. No need to visit the library to find that copyrighted book. As I've said many times in 2005, many libraries like the San Francisco Public Library offer access to this service for FREE!
To this day, Google Book Search (the material direct from publishers) and the Google Library Project are frequently confused. Google Print Now Publishing Out-Of-Copyright Works Gained Through Library Scanning Program
Google Catalogs is/was not only useful (save a tree kind of thing) but also a great demo of ocr scanning technology that I would think has some place in the Google Book Search/Google Library Project. Since we're on the topic of useful scanned...
All you need is a library card from a library that offers NetLibrary services. For example, the San Francisco Public Library offers a collection of NetLibrary materials that you "virtually" check out from the collection.
Legal Issues for Google Library Project in Europe - The Information World Review (IWR is a VNU publication) article: Google digitisation faces Euro legal challenge, reports on Google's book digitisation project (the Google Library Project to be...
Also, kudos to the NY Times reporter for pointing out something that we've blogged about many times when it comes to material found in the Google Book Search database that HAS been scanned from a library and is still considered in-copyright:
What is a Digital Library Anyway? Heather Lloyd-Martin is the CEO of SuccessWorks and author of the book, "Successful Search Engine Copywriting. In one example, his agency engaged in a test program with AdWords.
The Library Card Catalog 2005: More than Just Basic Book Info Google patents on CD, using Google patents to push domain names, upcoming debates over Google Print's library scanning program, a flap about Yahoo rewarding employees for kicking some...
This is not the same thing as the Google Library scanning program that has caused lots of attention and that will only show "snippets" of scanned in-copyright library materials. Search Inside the Book (online before Google Print) equates most...
Google Library is helping Google create that type of searchable index of books, that feeds into Google Print -- but Google Print does not let you then pull the book off the virtual shelf and read it online unless a publisher has explicitly...
Google Print is now publishing the full-text of public domain/out-of-copyright print works it has acquired through the Google Print library scanning project. The move comes a couple of days after it was announced that Google was resuming its...
Every library that provides a copy of the book for scanning will also recieve a file for local use. Postscript 2: The Open Library check out OpenLibrary.org for a cool bookviewer and the vision book-- it tells the story of what we envision.
I mentioned both of these services (available from home via many libraries) in my original post about the Google Library Program. Back in June, we blogged about a trade group of German publishers considering their own book digitization program.
