Tag: GOOGLEBOOKS

A New York court has rejected a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild against Google Books. Under the settlement, reached in 2009, Google would be able to digitize and display excerpts from books that are out of print, even if they're still under copyright, or not authorized to be included in Google Books. The agreement quickly raised the ire of many organizations, ...

Google's latest search tool may not be its most widely celebrated, but it could end up having a far greater cultural impact than anything else the company has ever done. The new Google Books Ngram Viewer, which launched last week, collects more than 500 billion words, from over 5.2 million digital books available for free download. Users can search for a specific word or phrase, and the viewer ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The bar has been raised for scary, homemade Halloween gadgets: Michael Colton built a remote-controlled flying ghost helicopter to scare the candy-hoarding children. [From: Engadget] The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal dives into the Google Books search algorithm. Books present the ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Saudi Arabia has apparently executed its planned boycott of BlackBerry messaging services, prompting both U.S. and Canadian governments to intervene. With Turkey, India and the United Arab Emirates all considering similar bans, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly hopes to broker a resolution because residents have "a ...

Hey, Google Books, get a load of this! Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo, has developed a system that can scan books simply by flipping pages under its camera eye. Professor Ishikawa claims that a 200-page book could be rendered by the machine in under a minute. Details are a bit scarce (and the dear professor's accent rather thick), so you'll just have to watch the ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... 3-D TVs definitely sound appealing, but consumers have to wonder if replacing their still relatively new flat screens is truly worthwhile, or, for that matter, monetarily feasible. James Cameron has supplied some incentive for those wary, potential 3-D TV shoppers with his recent announcement that a 3-D Blu-ray version of 'Avatar' ...

Google is finally trying to make some money from its controversial Google Books project. Sometime early next year, Google Editions will be launched as an outlet for e-books, thanks to deals the search giant has struck with publishers. Right out of the box, Google will offer some 500,000 books, both direct to consumers and though retail channels like Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. Of course, ...

Last October, Google agreed to pay a $125 million settlement to the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers in order to continue its digital publishing venture, Google Books. But the move still has to meet court approval. The Los Angeles Times reports that, as the window of opportunity to block the agreement closes -- there's a September 4th deadline for comments -- Microsoft, ...

It's a good time to be a Sony Reader owner. Google has just made 500,000 titles from its massive public-domain book collection accessible to users of Sony's popular e-book reader. This is the first time Google has made these resources available to such a device, effectively pushing Sony's Reader past Amazon's Kindle (which offers about 240,000 titles) in terms of books available for the ...