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The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note. |
Information Today November 21, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Books Online: The Free Versus Free Battle Begins Now that all the book digitizers have done enough to create what anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize" their investments. |
InternetNews October 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Hits The Fan The Association of American Publishers said it's suing Google over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners. |
InternetNews September 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement. |
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Google Suspends Copyright Copies The search engine giant makes concessions to copyright owners but some publishers still have concerns about Google's book projects. |
InternetNews October 18, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Extends Print Further into Europe Google expanded its Google Print service, launching book-specific search services in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and Spain. |
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books. |
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses. |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today November 3, 2003 Barbara Quint |
'Search Inside the Book': Full-Text on Amazon Tapping into over 33 million pages from over 120,000 non-fiction and fiction titles supplied by over 190 publishers, Amazon.com has launched a major online access service to the full text of publications. |
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Tom Lowry |
Random House: Digital Is Our Destiny Random House is moving beyond print to protect itself from the likes of Google. |
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it. |
Information Today December 22, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Google Beta Tests Book Search Service "Google's mission is to provide access to all the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible." Such conservative goal-setting has now led the world's busiest search engine to a new set of content -- books in print. |
InternetNews October 29, 2008 David Needle |
Authors Cheer Google Book Search Deal Settlement for $125 million ends a long battle over Google's Library project and searching inside books. |
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project. |
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Google Turns the Page The search giant comes up with a way to show book publishers the money. Meanwhile, it could get Google out of the hot seat when it comes to the controversial topic of digital copyright -- something Google investors certainly want to see. |
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet. |
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Michael J. Miller |
Our Best Products of the Year Major improvements to most electronics, but not in the area of security... Google's Print Library Project... Web applications are the hottest trend in software... |
InternetNews August 31, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Extends Book Scanning Operation In the face of increasing protests from publishers, Google affirms its intention to go back to scanning books under copyright. |
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Pens New Search Chapter Google unveiled an ambitious plan to bring information locked away in print form in libraries into its searchable index. |
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Google, Books and 'Consumer Bandwidth' Wary optimism greets Google's settlement with publishers, authors. Bigger copyright challenge looms from Viacom; bookselling industry still needs a lifeline. |
InternetNews September 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Goes to Europe Book publishers in five European companies can opt in to Google's Print Publishers Program. The indexed book content will be searchable via Google Book Search or regular Web search in all versions of Google. |
Search Engine Watch December 17, 2003 Chris Sherman |
Google Introduces Book Searches Google has launched an experimental program that indexes excerpts of popular books, blending the content from these works into regular Google search results. |
Information Today October 6, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google Print Expands Access to Books with Digitization Offer to All Publishers Instead of limiting the program to digitally formatted extracts and descriptive material contributed by selected publishers, the expanded Google Print program now offers to digitize any and all books contributed by any and all book publishers. |
InternetNews October 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Jumps on Book Search Wagon MSN hopped into the literary fray on Tuesday, announcing its intention to launch MSN Book Search in 2006. |
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature? |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
When Greatness Strikes What will the new Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade mean for investors? A lot has to go right for an unqualified success, but Amazon is at the forefront. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2005 Greg R. Notess |
Searching Books Between the Covers When and how to use Google and Amazon for full text book searches. Also, a comparison of the two resources reveals inconsistency with both. |
Search Engine Watch May 4, 2005 Gary Price |
Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools Google, Amazon and others offer really useful 'search inside the book' tools, but they're not always the easiest features to use. Here's a closer look at getting the most from online book search services. |
InternetNews May 27, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Goes Live Google opened the door to its online library with the launch of Print.Google.Com, a book-specific search page. |
Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
Search Engine Watch October 6, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Print Opens Widely To Publishers Google's nearly year-old Google Print program is set for a huge expansion of content through the launch of a new program today allowing publishers to more easily submit material for inclusion. |
PC Magazine January 29, 2004 |
Bits & Bytes RealNetworks filed suit against Microsoft in December 2003 for allegedly violating state and federal antitrust laws... Devices with better Bluetooth performance and no interference are expected to ship by the end of the first quarter... etc. |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Another Google Gaffe? Google has a big mission in organizing the world's information, and it takes more than good technology to do that. Till the company proves it understands this, it doesn't deserve your hard-earned investing dollars. |
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines. |
Information Today August 29, 2005 Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered. |
Searcher May 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Feature: The Ebook Wars - Amazon Versus the Rest The move to electronic publication of books is creating some of the same issues and problems for publishers and distributors that the music industry -- not to mention, the information industry -- has been dealing with for years now: disintermediation. |
InternetNews April 4, 2005 Tim Gray |
Amazon Buys On Demand Player BookSurge Company moves further into print-on-demand market. |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
A Boost for Amazon's Book Sales? The on-line bookseller purchases a print-on-demand concern. Will Amazon enjoy a particularly robust stream of excess revenue? |
InternetNews March 6, 2007 Michael Hickins |
Microsoft Claims Google 'Bolsters' Piracy A Microsoft attorney said Google makes billions on the backs of others' content. |
D-Lib August 2007 Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis. |
The Motley Fool October 4, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Yahoo! Takes the High Road Google has, so far, been the big winner in Internet search, and it has served the company's ad revenue well. It stands to reason that indexing media content will meaningfully supplement its already veritable search empire. But if the company is going to make it happen, Google needs to think more like, well, Yahoo!. |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Google Gets Burned Big questions remain unanswered about digital media's future. Google's battles to get its hands on copyrighted content may ultimately carry a hefty financial price for its shareholders. |
Information Today February 13, 2006 Miriam A. Drake |
University of Michigan President Distresses Scholarly Publishers Mary Sue Coleman delivered an address that concerned the Google Book Library Project at the University of Michigan and issues related to copyright, preservation, and providing public access to knowledge. |
InternetNews February 13, 2009 Judy Mottl |
Authors Want Amazon Kindle to Stop Talking Writers' advocacy group says text-to-voice feature should be disabled until copyright issue is resolved. |
Information Today March 8, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon's Squeeze on Booksellers Leads to Boycotts and Protests In January, Barnes & Noble made the decision to no longer carry Amazon-published titles in their brick-and-mortar stores "based on Amazon's continued push for exclusivity with publishers, agents and the authors they represent." |
Information Today October 3, 2005 Barbara Quint |
The Other Shoe Drops: Google Print Sued for Copyright Violation Google has been charged with violating copyright in its massive digitization program, Google Print for Libraries. |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Is Amazon Connect a Page Turner? Will authors' blogs help Amazon sell? For now, the most compelling content for many investors is going to be the company's earnings announcement. |