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An Elephant Backs Up Google's Library
Bits —
... .) In the Google Books Library Project , the Internet giant has been scanning the collections of several large libraries. The company gives users access to the complete text of books that are in the public domain, and to snippets of books that are protected by copyrights. Google also gives each library a copy of the books it digitized from that library. “Google is an excellent partner,” Paul Courant, university librarian and dean of libraries, at the University of Michigan, said in an interview. “They are a corporation with a responsibility to its stockholders. Google could ...
Google Library Partners Making Their Own Database
WebProNews Feed —
... Independent From the Search Giant A group of libraries that are participating in the Google Books Library Project want to make sure that their work lives on in case Google doesn't. They're forming a backup database of digitized books in case Google should go out of business in the future (insert joke or snide comment here). The database is called HathiTrust. ...
Google reaches settlement with authors
Webware.com —
... Google is digitizing the works from many major libraries, including the New York Public Library and the libraries at Stanford and and Harvard Universities, and is making those texts searchable on pages with advertisements. The Authors Guild, which represents more than 8,000 authors, ...
Google Hosts LIFE Photo Collection
Google Operating System —
... and make it universally accessible and useful", you have to first gather the information. If it's not online, the first thing that needs to be done is to get the permission to use that data or to create a system that allows copyright owners to upload their works and to monetize them. Google started to host content in 2001 when it acquired the Usenet archive, then it used Google Video to host movies and documentaries from the US National Archives and it digitized books from public libraries and newspaper archives. Google Image Search's index ...
EU Presents Ambitious Open-Source Library Digitization Project, Site Promptly Crashes
TechCrunch —
... , on which Van der Meulen also worked. But it has in the press been compared to Google’s Library Project. Copyright concerns are abundant in all three projects. ...
Google seeks more time in Book Search case
CNET News - Politics and Law —
... Google said Monday it's seeking 60 more days to find authors and persuade them of what it believes are the merits of a settlement involving its online Book Search service. ...
Google seeks more time in Book Search case
Webware.com —
... Google said Monday it's seeking 60 more days to find authors and persuade them of what it believes are the merits of a settlement involving its online Book Search service. ...
How to download books from Google
Hack a Day —
... Everyone must be aware of the Google Books Library project by now. If you’re not, it’s basically a way for Google to ensure all of the world’s book content is accessible and searchable. Through the Book Project, Google works with libraries to scan and archive their older and out of print materials. Up until recently, viewers of books in the Google Library Project web space were limited to viewing books within the browser. Not any more. ...
Book War
dailywireless.org —
... B&N will also make available 500,000 free (public domain) titles from the Google Book Project via The Nook. If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given Google permission, you’ll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it’s in the public domain, you’re free to download a PDF copy.
Barnes & Noble has an e-bookstore on its Web site, BN.com. It also sells digital editions that can be read on the iPhone and BlackBerry, as well as on computers ...
