The Book Search settlement, announced in October, followed a three-year battle over Google’s right to display copyrighted books on its Web site. The Authors Guild and the Association of American ...

Is Google ready - or willing - to become a library? Librarians, academics, and privacy advocates will gather Friday on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley to discuss the ...

The Google Play website gives you instant access to thousands of books including business, computer programming and financial books in the eBook format. Ebooks can be read online or on a Google Books ...

Scott Rosenberg is an editor at Backchannel. Sign up to get Backchannel's weekly newsletter. To answer such questions, you need Google Book Search, the tool that magically scours the texts of millions ...

Sony Electronics has struck a deal with Google in a major endorsement that makes more than half a million public domain books from its digitization project available for free on the Sony Reader in its ...

Both Google Play Books and Amazon Kindle are very popular among readers. But when it comes to choosing one of them, it can be tricky to make the selection. So, we’ve created this Google Play Books vs ...

Despite asking a federal judge to cancel the scheduled October 7 fairness hearing, the parties in the Google Book Search Settlement said they were eager to fix the deal and move forward. As the legal ...

Google's book search is no longer limited to just books—now, users can turn up magazine results when hunting through the electronic versions of dead trees. The company announced Tuesday that it had ...

E-book platforms such as Google Play Books provide increased flexibility by enabling you to read professional development publications right on your iPhone. To read Google Books on your iPhone, you ...

Google is cagey about exactly how it scans books for its digital library effort, but a patent reveals details--and the hurdles competitors face. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

For those who have ever wondered how many different books are out there in the world, Google has an answer for you: 129,864,880, according to Leonid Taycher, a Google software engineer who works on ...