Google: Book Search

Google Search lets readers find e-books at their local libraries

The new search feature is currently available on...

Amy Gesenhues | Sep 18, 2017 at 4:35 pm ET

Google mobile search adds book previews

You can now read book previews directly on your smartphone from Google...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 23, 2017 at 8:51 am ET

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...

Barry Levine | Jan 4, 2016 at 1:50 pm ET

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...

Greg Sterling | Oct 16, 2015 at 12:56 pm ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Nov 14, 2013 at 3:45 pm ET

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...

Greg Sterling | May 31, 2012 at 8:32 pm ET

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...

Matt McGee | May 3, 2012 at 7:34 pm ET

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...

Gary Price | Sep 15, 2011 at 8:55 pm ET

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...

Greg Sterling | Aug 8, 2011 at 10:23 am ET

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...

Pamela Parker | Jul 20, 2011 at 5:48 pm ET

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...

Matt McGee | Jul 19, 2011 at 6:57 pm ET

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...

Barry Schwartz | May 20, 2011 at 8:37 am ET

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,...

Greg Sterling | Mar 22, 2011 at 5:18 pm ET

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...

Chris Silver Smith | Feb 28, 2011 at 11:16 am ET

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...

Matt McGee | Jan 10, 2011 at 4:50 pm ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Dec 19, 2010 at 1:56 pm ET

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...

Chris Sherman | Dec 6, 2010 at 10:00 am ET

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...

Matt McGee | Nov 17, 2010 at 4:12 pm ET

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...

Matt McGee | Aug 24, 2010 at 7:35 pm ET

How Many Books Are There On Earth? Google Knows

Much like search marketers may salivate over some new piece of inside SEO info that Matt Cutts (or someone else at Google) shares, some book...

Matt McGee | Aug 6, 2010 at 10:25 am ET