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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a deal that adds credibility to Google’s controversial library project, the search giant on Wednesday said the University of California (UC) has agreed to allow the company to digitize and make ...

The Google Books Project Google Books consists of two parts: the Partner Program and the Library Project. In the Partner Program, the rights holders, primarily publishers, grant Google the right to ...

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 ...

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 ...

New search features improve the experience of searching for terms within Google's library of books and magazines, as well as linking to pages from external blogs. Tom Krazit writes about the ...