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Google Book Search Now Includes Magazines [Google Book Search]
Lifehacker —
... article about Hank Aaron, written as he closed in on Babe Ruth's original record for career home runs. You can read the article in full color and in its original context, just as you would in the printed magazine. Scroll back a few pages, for example, and you'll find a two-page spread on 1973's fall fashions . If you'd like to read further, you can click on " Browse all issues " to view issues from across the decades. Other available titles include Popular Science , New York Magazine , and the more obscure Bulletin of Atomic Scientists . ...
Magazines Come to Google Book Search
ReadWriteWeb —
Google today announced that it is adding magazines to its lineup for Google Book Search. These magazines include publications like Popular Science and New York Magazine, but also more obscure publications like the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. In the long run, Google expects to add search results from these magazines to its main Google.com search results.
It is not clear if Google struck a deal with specific publishers to allow for this, but the selection of included magazines still feels a bit uneven and leaves out quite a few well known publications like Time, Newsweek, and Wired.
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Download Squad —
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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 ...
Go-Go Magic Magazine Searches!
Homotron.net —
... at the same time. The articles are in full-color and have not been adjusted at all, so you can see the information in it's original-esque glory.
While I think it's an interesting idea, I'm curious to see if this catches on with publishers or readers. I suppose this could be very useful for research purposes, but trying to convince publishers, many of whom are struggling to increase readership and sales, to post their content free online may be a stretch.
In any case, give it a shot. It's a pretty nifty tool!
Search and find magazines on Google Book ...
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