Google: Book Search
Google book search now includes audiobook results
Search results will show books available on audiobook apps....
Google Search lets readers find e-books at their local libraries
The new search feature is currently available on...
Google mobile search adds book previews
You can now read book previews directly on your smartphone from Google...
Authors Guild Appeals Lower Court Decision Backing Google’s Book Digitizing Project
The issue is whether Google’s project violates the copyrights of some of the millions of scanned books, or whether it has a valid “fair...
Ending Decade Of Litigation, Court OKs Google Book Scanning As “Fair Use”
A three-judge panel for the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals has definitively ruled that Google’s full-text book scanning is “fair...
Court Finds Google’s Book Scanning Is Fair Use: Highlights From The Ruling
Nearly ten years after it began and eight years after Google was sued over it, Google’s program that scans books in order to make them...
Google Stung By Procedural Ruling In Book Scanning Lawsuit
Google received a procedural setback today in the long running litigation over its book-scanning project. Presiding Judge Dennis Chin ruled that...
Google Asks Court To Dismiss Book-Scanning Lawsuits
As their long-running legal battle continues, Google has asked a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits brought by authors’ and...
Google Books Lawsuit: Trial Proceedings Move Ahead, While Negotiations Continue
The lawsuit over Google Books is back on track for trial but purposely with enough time to allow the parties involved to keep negotiating a...
Google And Largest French Publisher Update Accord On Book Scanning
Hachette Livre, the largest book publisher in France, has reached a book-scanning agreement with Google (actually it did last year; this is an...
Harry Potter EBooks To Be Released In Open Google EBook Format
When “Harry Potter” series author J.K. Rowling announced she would finally allow e-book versions of her titles to be sold, though...
Google Working On Opt-In Settlement Of Book Search Lawsuit
A Google attorney told a federal judge today that the two sides involved in the long-running Google Book Search lawsuit settlement are...
Google Book Search Adds Contextual Search, Define & Translate
Now within Google eBooks you can search, define and translate words within the book using the click of your mouse. Using the Google eBooks Web...
Google Book Search Settlement Rejected By Court
Remember the Google Book (Class Action) Settlement? It’s been some time since there’s been any news. After many months of waiting,...
A Local Search Marketing Tactic That’s One For The Books
Some commonplace, traditional promotion methods provide significant SEO benefits for local search marketers. However, many managers expend more...
European Commission Wants 7-Year Limit On Google’s Digitization
At a hearing Monday in Brussels, the European Commission issued a report calling for a 7-year limit on exclusivity deals that Google and other...
When OCR Goes Bad: Google’s Ngram Viewer & The F-Word
Google launched its Google Books Ngram Viewer this week, a tool that lets you research how popular words and phrases have been over several...
Going Head-To-Head With Amazon, Google Launches eBooks
Google has rolled out its long awaited digital ebooks program, the next step in the company’s ambitious but controversial project to scan...
Google Makes Deal To Scan Some French Books
While a US court is still deciding the fate of the Google book scanning settlement, the company has announced a deal with the biggest publisher...
Study: Google Book Search Doesn’t Hurt Publishers, May Help Them
While the wait continues for a decision in the long-running Google Book Search lawsuit and settlement proposal, a new study throws cold water on...
