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12 New Schools Join Google Book Search

by Terrence O'Brien on June 8, 2007 at 05:19 PM

12 New Schools Join Google Book Search

Google has signed on 12 new universities to participate in its Google Book Search program, a massive effort to scan textbooks in order to make them fully searchable over the Internet ... Goodbye, libraries! Search results are returned in different formats depending on the book's copyright status. That can range from a simple 'About' page to the full, printable text.

The addition of the University of Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin nearly doubles the number of schools working on the project.

Though Google has said that Book Search will respect copyright law, the company is nevertheless entangled in lawsuits brought forth by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.

But once those are settled, bring on the Chemistry 101 / YouTube / Google Maps mashups!

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