Google Print Faces Further Delays
News Tyler declined to be more specific about the timing, but did say that scanners will start with older parts of the participating library collections, which tend to include more public domain and out-of-print books than books still under copyright...
[November 4, 2005, 8:40]
Google Print Upsets Children's Hospital
News Google has also said it will only show small portions of copyright-protected books, if the copyright-holder has opted-out of Google Print. The hospital, which receives all the royalties from sales and performances of Peter Pan in the UK, fears that...
[November 4, 2005, 16:30]
Google Print Upsets Children's Hospital
Talkback Publishers are just annoyed they won't be making money off of all those out-of-print books. The same will happen to the books they index - Peter Pan included. Google print is just an index, for pete's sake, nobody will be able to READ Peter Pan...
[November 6, 2005, 1:02]
Google Resumes Book Scanning
News The company says it will resume scanning books but will focus on out-of-print titles and wants to get publishers' permission to scan in-print books as part of Google Print. According to Google Print product manager Adam Smith, the August moratorium...
[November 1, 2005, 10:55]
Google Suspends Plan To Scan The World's Books
News The company announced its Google Print programme in October 2004 as a way "for publishers to make their books discoverable by the millions of people who search on Google" and began the laborious process of scanning in millions of copyright and non...
[August 15, 2005, 15:40]
Google To Unlock Libraries
News Google will expand its ability for searching books by working with Oxford, Stanford and Harvard Universities, among others, to digitise out-of-print and copyrighted works. Also on Tuesday, the company will begin sampling some works already scanned...
[December 14, 2004, 8:50]
Google Trials Text Search
News The service, called Google Print Beta, lets Web surfers call up brief exerpts from books, critic reviews, bibliographic and author's notes, and in some cases, a picture of the book jacket. Google has started letting people search text within books...
[December 18, 2003, 8:40]
Google Faces Massive Copyright Suit
News It said at the time that it also was making changes to its Google Print Publisher Program, in which books are scanned at the request of the publisher so people can view excerpts. A group representing more than 8,000 authors on Tuesday filed a...
[September 21, 2005, 8:55]
Publishers Lay Into Google Print
News Google representative Eileen Rodriguez said Tuesday that the company respects the rights of copyright holders and that Google Print "incorporates several ways to view books to protect copyright. Although we believe there are many business...
[May 25, 2005, 9:40]
European Book Market Is In Google's Sights
News Google is making versions available in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and Spain that will allow users to search across collections of books in the local languages. The company is hoping to woo book publishers by...
[October 18, 2005, 18:20]
Google Clashes With UK Publishers Over Digital Libraries
News Google digitises entire books, not just indexing but displaying the entire work," said Hugh Jones, copyright counsel for the Publishers Association. Google also claimed that it boosts publishers' sales by including adverts and information on where...
[June 6, 2006, 13:45]
Google Suspends Plan To Scan The World's Books
Talkback According to Google's Print Product Manager, Adam Smith, this process has been halted so "any and all copyright holders can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library".
[August 15, 2005, 17:11]
Amazon Ups The Ante For Digitisation
News There are in-print books, there are out-of-print books and then there are out-of-copyright books. The in-copyright books, whether they're in print or out of print — in both cases we want to continue as we have been with Search Inside the Book.
[November 10, 2005, 17:15]
Google Reveals Its 300-year Plan
News Schmidt also responded to a question about complaints Google has endured, including a lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild over its plan to digitise books and make them searchable online. Despite the slowdown in print advertising, Google is testing a...
[October 10, 2005, 9:15]
Photos: The Battle For The Golden Penguin Bowl
News The geeks and the nerds are tested on the four pillars of geekdom - computers, science fiction, comic books and space. The host of the event, Samba co-founder Jeremy Allison, plays the part of Mr Money with dollar sunglasses and a suit decorated...
[April 6, 2006, 10:05]
Microsoft Partners With British Library
News Microsoft has signed a deal with the British Library to digitise 100,000 of its books. and the Internet Archive, which Microsoft has recently become involved in, as well as Google's on-off Google Print scheme.
[November 4, 2005, 15:25]
HP, MIT Delve Deep With Digital Library
News The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled a system for electronically archiving books, lecture notes and scientific data that potentially will serve as a model for academic libraries in the future.
[November 5, 2002, 8:28]
Google Offers Free PDFs Of Books
News Google Book Search now offers PDF files of scanned books that can be downloaded and printed for free, Google announced on Wednesday. Readers can find the books by choosing the "Full view books" option on the Google Book Search home page before they...
[August 31, 2006, 9:55]
