Tag: GOOGLE-BOOK-SEARCH

Google's Book Search already provides PDF download links for all the public domain title it indexes, like the works of William Shakespeare. It's a handy way to peruse titles later when you don't have high speed internet access available. Suppose you want to check out a title like the February 1976 version of Ebony Jr. Then what? You could manually browse it one page at a time and save each image, ...

Google has been scanning books for the last couple of years for the company's Book Search portal. Well over a million of those books are in the public domain, which means that Google can legally make the full text available online without running into any copyright issues. And this week the company upped the game by creating a mobile portal which basically means you can read any of those books on ...

Google's efforts to digitize the world's book collection have drawn the ire of some book publishers. So what's the next step? Digitizing magazines of course. Nobody ever got in trouble for doing that, right? But seriously, Google has announced that working with publishers, the company has digitized current and back issues of magazines including Ebony, Popular Science, and New York Magazine. You ...

Sure, Google and Microsoft may talk about ambitious plans to make the full text of every book available online for searching and reading. But the New York Times reports that some major research libraries aren't happy with the terms offered by Microsoft and Google. In the past, we'd heard a lot of complaints from book publishers who alleged that Google was violating their copyrights. But these ...