techcrunch.com - 2/11/2009
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Last October, Google signed a $125 million settlement with the Author’s Guild to pay authors for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web through its Google Book Search project. More than 7 million books have been scanned by Google so far, a large portion of them ...
google-tmads.blogspot.com - 2/12/2009
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At Google we've never shied away from high-risk,
high-reward projects. We believe that making big bets is...
not only in the best interests of our users and partners, but also important for our long term success. In 2006, we launched Google Audio Ads and ...
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asiajin.com - 2/9/2009
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asiajin.com —
Google Japan seems desperate in chasing the Mighty
Yahoo! (see here for example). They are now using...
a tainted and controversial social media optimization method called pay-per-post, provided by CyberBuzz. Recently, Google Japan announced a top-page ...
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Google Japan Buys Dirty Pay-Per-Post Links
pcworld.com - 2/10/2009
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Google is testing software that will let consumers
get detailed information on how much electricity they're using,...
which could help households reduce consumption by as much as 15 percent, the company said Monday. The software, Google PowerMeter, ...
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Google's PowerMeter Lets You Know If the Lights Are on
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Tech Observer —
... Google will pay authors and publishers $60 per scanned online book under terms of the $125 million settlement it reached with the Authors Guild. [Techcrunch] ...
Roundup: Twestival is tomorrow, Palm talks Pre and patents, Google pays up and more
VentureBeat —
... Google pays up to out-of-print authors — As part of its Google Book Search settlement, Google is paying authors of books that appear on the site that are out-of-print, up to $60 per scanned book. TechCrunch has more. ...
Authors Get $60 Per Book, 63 Percent Of Ad Revenue In Google Book Settlement
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... As TechCrunch notes, it's not that bad a deal—since the books named in the suit have already been out-of-print. And since Google has increasingly incorporated Book Search results into everyday searches, the ad share portion of the settlement represents an ongoing revenue stream. The search giant has been digitizing books since 2005, and ...
Google and Amazon VS The E-Book Publishers
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... , later to be named Google Book Search, Google claimed it would be “interested in working with rights holders who own or control a “substantial” amount of content for inclusion in the Google Print program.” However we move forward to February 2009 and ...
Google Wants All World's Books and Will Pay All the Authors
Beet.TV —
... with who hold copyrights in the United States. We sat down with Google spokesperson Gabriel Stricker who explained the process and what the approval will mean for users of Google and authors of "orphan" books which are out of print but still have copyright protection. While amount of money for authors in the settlement is just $60 per title, there will be other fees in the form of sharing in e-commerce, search and advertising. Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch wrote about the pending settlement and payment to authors back in ...
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CNET News.com 2/12/2009
Authors and publishers are submitting claims to Google for payment under a settlement agreement the search giant reached in a copyright lawsuit that specifies $60 per book and 63 percent of ad revenues.
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