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Google Optimizes Book Search for Mobile
WebProNews Feed — [image] A Free Mobile Library of Over a Million and a Half Books Google Mobile Book Search Google has launched a long overdue mobile version of Book Search for the iPhone and Android. This includes access to over 1.5 million mobile public domain books. Books on this version have been optimized to be read on small screens, which is not the easiest thing in the world to do. A post by the Google Book Search Mobile Team explains the process a bit: There's an interesting backstory about the work involved to prepare so many books for mobile devices. If you ...

Google makes 1.5 million books available on mobile, free
Tech Digest — ... , then you'll find mobile-optimised versions of the books which display text, rather than the digital images provided on the non-mobile edition. I should admit, too, that the headline's slightly misleading - 1.5 million books are available in the USA, with just half a million of those available outside the US. That's a shame, but almost certainly due to copyright issues - books in the public domain in the USA may well not be in the rest of the world. Google Book Search for Mobile (via ...

Google Book Search llega a iPhone y Android
Celularis — ... Para ver que les parece vayan a http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/ desde sus celulares y después nos cuentan que les pareció leer un libro de esta manera. ...

Google brings Shakespeare and Twain to your iPhone
Macworld — by Mikael Ricknäs , IDG News Service Google has adapted its Book Search for the iPhone and its own Android platform, it announced on Thursday. It joins a growing group of network operators and content providers that are putting books on mobile phones. Google originally began digitizing books to make them accessible over the Web from a PC through its Book Search service. Beginning with scanned images of the books' pages, Google used optical character recognition (OCR) technology to extract and index the text to make it searchable. On a PC, someone searching for a quote is shown the high-resolution image of the corresponding page , but those pages ...

Google brings Shakespeare and Twain to your iPhone
iPhone Central — by Mikael Ricknäs , IDG News Service Google has adapted its Book Search for the iPhone and its own Android platform, it announced on Thursday. It joins a growing group of network operators and content providers that are putting books on mobile phones. Google originally began digitizing books to make them accessible over the Web from a PC through its Book Search service. Beginning with scanned images of the books' pages, Google used optical character recognition (OCR) technology to extract and index the text to make it searchable. On a PC, someone searching for a quote is shown the high-resolution image of the corresponding page , but those pages ...

Google Making Powerful Moves
Scobleizer — ... Then, also last week those smart people at Google released eBooks onto iPhone. More than a million public domain books are now readable on your iPhone. That’s pretty cool, although I still can’t see reading long books on my iPhone. That’s why I ordered the Amazon Kindle 2.0. It’ll be interesting to compare the two, that’s for sure. ...

Google Mobile Book Search for Other Phones
Google Blogoscoped — ... and says, “we added a mobile book search similar to Google’s but one that works on all phones and also supports Internet Archive”. He explains that Google’s official mobile book search (as ...

Free E-Books and E-Book Resources [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... and if you have an iPhone or T-Mobile G1 Android phone. To try Google Book Search out on an iPhone or G1, click here in your browser. You'll find titles in many categories, including General Fiction, Philosophy, Classics, Business & Economics and more. ...

Free E-Books and E-Book Resources
OStatic blogs — ... and if you have an iPhone or T-Mobile G1 Android phone. To try Google Book Search out on an iPhone or G1, click here in your browser. You'll find titles in many categories, including General Fiction, Philosophy, Classics, Business & Economics and more. ...