Tag: GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH

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 ...

Google Book Search, while an impressive tool, has faced numerous roadblocks and lawsuits that have prevented it from reaching its full potential. Many books that have no existing copyright are available from the search giant's library, as are textbooks from many universities. Things may finally be turning around for the company, which has a stated goal to index all of the knowledge in the ...

Google's next foray into content delivery won't be video or music but books – and the Web search company isn't talking about selling the latest Nicholas Sparks best-seller to be read on a dedicated digital reader. Instead, Google will be working with publishers and authors to produce online-only books that will be read on the computers that consumers already have. While Sony and Amazon would ...

Sure, you can embed YouTube Videos in your Web site or blog, but now you'll be able to embed images of scanned books, thanks to Google. Since 2004, Google Book Search has allowed users to search through thousands of books, many of which can be downloaded in the commonly-used PDF format. Now you can draw a box around a region of text and stick it right into a blog post or Web site, just like we ...