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 ...

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 ...

The books scanned through Google’s partnership with university libraries are now available for download online. Well, that is, the public-domain books are available. “Public domain books include both ...

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The least likely path is that Google would fold up the Google Books library scanning project, decide that it’s just not worth the hassle and risk, and continue to offer for sale authorized electronic ...

The libraries that supplied the books for Google’s effort to create the world’s largest online library were covered by fair use, a judge has ruled The Author’s Guild had claimed the libraries that ...

Google Inc notched a legal victory in its bid to create the world's largest digital books library, winning the reversal of a court order that had allowed authors challenging the project to sue as a ...

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 ...