With Google’s help, it is becoming increasingly easier for students to ditch their paperbacks and hardcover textbooks for e-readers and iPads. The option partly stems from the University’s involvement ...

PHILADELPHIA — Google has been busy. The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world’s out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive. It could all be just a ...

Google just added a new feature to Google Book Search that lets you build your personal book library. Just search for books you own, and click the "Add to my library" link -- or, you can use the ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, today became the first UC campus to contribute a shipment of books from its library for the Google Books Library Project. The massive project was launched in ...

If Google digitizes the world’s books, how will it keep track of what you read? That’s one of the unanswered questions that librarians and privacy experts are grappling with as Google attempts to ...

The University of California has released a copy of its contract with Google to have the search engine giant digitize millions of books from the university’s libraries. The document shines a light on ...

After a decade of court battles, Google's massive book-scanning project has finally been deemed legal. On Friday, a three-judge panel in the Second Circuit sided with the tech giant, declaring that ...

How the tech giant has fared in its major legal battles across the U.S. and Europe so far. By Nico Grant The absence of stringent regulation has allowed the search giant to dominate the powerful ...

Scott Rosenberg is an editor at Backchannel. Sign up to get Backchannel's weekly newsletter. To answer such questions, you need Google Book Search, the tool that magically scours the texts of millions ...

Arol is a tech journalist who worked as a news and feature writer for Android Police from 2021 to 2023. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The National Library of Catalonia and five affiliated libraries have agreed to take part in Google Inc.'s bid to scan book collections of the world's great libraries, the third in ...