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 ...

Any day now, trucks will begin arriving weekdays at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin to begin hauling away thousands of books. The books will be ferried to undisclosed locations to be scanned ...

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 ...

In a move with major significance for the worlds of academic research and publishing, the University of California is in talks to join Google’s controversial project to digitize great libraries and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Authors Guild has sued five universities and a library partnership organization alleging copyright infringement over their use of certain digitized copies of books made by Google in its Books ...

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 ...