Still embroiled in controversy over its plans to digitize several of the world's largest library collections, Google is inviting U.S. and U.K. publishers to sell online access to their copyright texts ...

A database of published books that have been scanned by Google and made available in Google search results or from the Google Book site. Introduced in 2004 as the Google Print Library Project, it ...

Google revealed its intention to launch an online bookstore dubbed Google Editions sometime in early 2010. Google plans to open for business with about 500,000 available titles from a variety of ...

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2004--Stanford University today announced an ambitious plan to cooperate with Google Inc. in digitizing hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of books ...

The market for electronic books just got a little more competitive. Google is rolling out an online retail store that will sell e-books from some 4,000 publishers, including all of the major houses.

Debbie Elliott and New York Times Magazine ethicist Randy Cohen examine the dilemma that search engine Google poses with its Google Book Search tool. The powerful software can scan whole sections of ...

Today I am going to discuss Google Books previously called Google Print and Google Book Search. Google Books was introduced in 2004 at Frankfurt Bookfair and Google’s Library Project, also now known ...

Google, along with the publishing consortium Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild, a writers' group, announced a settlement Tuesday regarding the use of copyrighted book material ...

Google, which paints itself as a warrior in Internet regulatory and legal challenges, apparently prioritized self-interest by settling copyright infringement lawsuits over its book search engine.

Is Google planning an "e-books coup"? That's the headline of a recent Times of London article on Google's Book Search project, and it sounds like exciting stuff: storming castles, overthrowing leaders ...

In a blog post published this week, search mammoth Google explained the deep and thoroughly elaborate algorithm used by its literary offshoot, Google Books, to count just how many books exist in the ...