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Information Today June 5, 2008 Barbara Quint	Microsoft Shuts Down Two of Its Google `Wannabe's': Live Search Books and Live Search Academic The reason for the cancellation was money or the lack of it. Microsoft could not foresee a sustainable business model for the service.
Information Today July 2, 2007 Miriam A. Drake	Ingram Digital and Microsoft Join in an Alliance Microsoft Corp. and Ingram Digital Group have signed an agreement whereby Microsoft's Live Search Books program will outsource high-volume scanning and digital management services to the Ingram Digital Group.
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg	The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore	Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.
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.
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price	Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.
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 March 7, 2011 Barbara Quint	New Lending Model for Ebooks in Libraries from Internet Archive's OpenLibrary The swirling, chaotic ebook revolution continues to generate controversies, particularly in the library arena.
Information Today August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google.
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?
Information Today May 22, 2008 Barbara Quint	OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search.
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 April 25, 2013 Nancy K. Herther	Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries.
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price	World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint	Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too.
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.
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 October 3, 2005 Barbara Quint	Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print Google Print's ambitious effort to digitize the world's book literature has inspired others to initiate their own effort.
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbara Quint	The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library.
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.
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.
InternetNews October 27, 2005	Open Content Alliance: The World's Books For All International group of research libraries bands together to provide open online access to the world's books.
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.
Information Today June 18, 2007 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Has a Busy Week In the first week of June, Google Book Search adds a 12-university consortium, and deals with stolen laptops and competitors.
Searcher February 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world?
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.
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 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.
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid	Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project.
Information Today July 25, 2013	SwetsWise Gains Ebook Collection Swets signed an agreement with Edward Elgar Publishing making the publisher's 2,300 ebooks available in the SwetsWise catalog.
Information Today December 2006 Greg R. Notess	Microsoft Launches Live Search Books Microsoft has launched Live Search Books. All of the books available on Live Search Books are out-of-copyright titles, thus avoiding the copyright controversy at Google Books.
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al.	Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google.
Information Today April 22, 2013	World Scientific Publishing Signs Ebook Agreement With YBP Library Services Customers will be able to access the publisher's 2012-2013 Front List Full Collection of ebooks that will be available for purchase from World Scientific Publishing through GOBI 3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP's acquisition and collection management interface.
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.
Information Today November 4, 2010	University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.
Information Today February 7, 2013 Barbara Quint	Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access.
Information Today April 4, 2011 Paula J. Hane	Library Ebook Lending Under Attack The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more.
Information Today October 6, 2008 Jill E. Grogg	Print on Demand Goes Local Localized print on demand (POD) is ushering in the next era of book publishing and distribution. It could create a dramatically new paradigm for libraries.
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.
Information Today February 25, 2010 Barbara Quint	19th-Century Books From The British Library on Kindle for Free Last year, Microsoft completed its digitization obligations to The British Library and handed over 25 million pages in 65,000 19th-century books.
Information Today September 29, 2011 Dan Tonkery	Amazon Launches Library Ebook Lending Support for Kindle and an All-New Kindle Family Support for ebook lending is a major departure for Amazon and is an important milestone for libraries. Previously, Amazon only sold ebooks and did not support ebook lending for libraries even though there has been significant demand from libraries.
Information Today May 24, 2010	World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitized and are being made publicly accessible as part of a partnership between Google, the University of California and the UC San Diego Libraries.
Information Today October 31, 2005 Barbara Quint	Open Content Alliance Expands Rapidly; Reveals Operational Details Just a few weeks after its launch, the Open Content Alliance has already added dozens of new members to its Open Library project.
Information Today October 17, 2011 Nancy K. Herther	Kansas Leading the Fight for Fair Ebook Access in Libraries The Kansas case brings up a variety of important issues and problems with ebooks today: The issues of platform, buyers rights, and the very structure of the ebook industry.
Information Today January 22, 2009	Wiley Announces Online Books Agreement With YBP Library Services Nearly 7,000 online books will be available on YBP's main collection planning and acquisitions tool, GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information.
Information Today May 28, 2002 Barbara Quint	OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives.
Information Today September 19, 2011 Barbara Quint	The British Library to Change Licensing for Noncommercial, Non-U.K. Document Delivery The new service stems from a new framework license agreement supported by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and the Publishers Association.
Information Today March 13, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Scholar Adds Pay-Per-View Delivery from The British Library Google Scholar continues to enhance its ability to not only find scholarly content but also to fetch it.
Information Today July 7, 2011 Paula J. Hane	Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services.