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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. Now with Amazon's Kindle e-book reader available internationally - in the UK... [27 Oct 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News Google plans to display portions of those books (rights-holders can specify how much Google is allowed to show) as part of the Google Book Search product and will also provide access to the books through... [09 Sep 2009]
Google seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News In a move to assuage European publishers' concerns over book digitisation, Google on Monday said European books still listed as commercially available will not be included in its online registry of orphaned and... [08 Sep 2009]
Google Books beefs up privacy policy after criticism
News Under the new policy Google will not require book searchers to create a Google account if they are viewing pages of books online, browsing books through a university's institution subscription to the... [04 Sep 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News Google has book-search agreements in place with numerous publishers but the company hopes that the settlement will permit it to bring many more books into its service. Currently, users of Google... [21 Aug 2009]
EU: Authors - we need you. What do you think of Google books?
News European Union regulators want publishers and authors to weigh in on copyright issues with Google's book scanning and book search project, according to the Associated Press. Google... [21 Jul 2009]
Photos: Inside the British Library's digital books project
Photo The British Library is working with Microsoft and imaging company Content Conversion Specialists (CCS) on a massive book digitisation project. Over a period of two years, around 100,000 books from the... [27 Sep 2007]
Google speaks to the book world
News The event was largely a response to Google's controversial Library Project and corresponding Book Search tool, which have met strong opposition from the publishing industry. To anyone... [19 Jan 2007]
Microsoft launches book search beta
News Microsoft is set to release Live Search Books, its competitor to Google Book Search, in beta today. The book search engine performs keyword searches for... [06 Dec 2006]
Microsoft worming into Google's territory
News Kirtas Technologies will scan works for Microsoft's Live Book Search web-based application, with the books starting to appear online early next year. Cornell University Library has... [18 Oct 2006]
Google offers books for free
News Google Book Search now offers PDF files of scanned books that can be downloaded and printed for free, Google announced on Wednesday. Readers can find the books by choosing the "Full view books" option on... [31 Aug 2006]
Digital library needs more help from UK
News The search giant is planning to expand its book search feature to allow users to download out of copyright books, such as Dante's Inferno. The UK is being urged to step up its efforts to... [30 Aug 2006]
Google book-scanning bid gets new buddy
News Google has added another partner to its controversial library-book scanning project - the University of California (UC), which is also working with a team led by the Internet Archive, Microsoft and Yahoo! [09 Aug 2006]
Hack Google, release its hidden power, and find what you want on the Internet
White Paper However, the simple Google search is only one of the features you can access from Google's library of applications. In this download of example hacks from the book Google Hacks: 100... [16 May 2006]
Google prevails in copyright suit
News The search engine also faces copyright lawsuits filed last year by authors and publishers groups over its controversial Library Project book-scanning scheme, and a lawsuit filed by... [17 Mar 2006]
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