Is Google ready - or willing - to become a library? Librarians, academics, and privacy advocates will gather Friday on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley to discuss the ...

A new partnership between the Princeton University Library and Google soon will make approximately 1 million books in Princeton's collection available online in a searchable format. In a move designed ...

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 Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library contributed about 100,000 volumes to the Google Books online library. They include: “The Stalk-Eyed Crustacea,” by Walter Faxon, 1895 — Specimens were ...

Google’s plan to digitize the world’s books into a combination research library and bookstore started in 2002 when it first began scanning books without permission from authors. The Google Books ...

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 initiative could offer unprecedented access to an enormous collection of human knowledge, but it has created controversy over who stands to profit from it. A truck belonging to Google pulls up at ...

Despite initial awe for Google's project to digitize and make library books searchable online, some publishers are now criticizing the plan, calling it a "broad ...

It was the most ambitious library project of our time—a plan to scan all of the world’s books and make them available to the public online. “We think that we can do it all inside of ten years,” ...

Book-loving kids in Christiansburg, Va., are about to get a special delivery to ease the boredom of summer quarantine (and months of being stuck at home). Google will soon start dropping books to kids ...