SAN FRANCISCO--When it comes to digitizing books, two stories appear to be unfolding: One is about open source, and the other, Google. Or so it seemed at a party held by the Internet Archive on ...

CAP Action Senior Fellow David Balto testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on competitive concerns raised by the Google Books Project. A Chinese Google user presents flowers in front of ...

German publisher WBG has dropped its legal challenge to Google's Books Library Project, according to the Internet search giant. "It's our belief that the display of short snippets from in-copyright ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Google’s plan to digitize every bound book in some of the nation’s largest libraries and make them ...

Scanning and digitizing one book costs $60. Scanning and digitizing the University’s 7.7 million printed works would cost $462 million. A price as steep as that makes it easy to understand why the ...

A coalition of firms that oppose a settlement reached last year between Google and some representatives of the publishing industry over its Google Books project is growing. New members now reportedly ...

A US judge ruled last month that the libraries that provided content for Google’s massive book scanning project were covered by fair use exemptions to copyright law. But what does that mean for the ...

Twelve major universities will digitize select collections in each of their libraries — up to 10 million volumes — as part of Google Inc.'s book-scanning project. The goal: a shared digital repository ...

The University of California is joining Google Inc.'s book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged ...

The president of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, said in a speech to scholarly-book publishers on Monday that her institution’s participation in the controversial Google Library Project ...

Absorbing reCAPTCHA, the word-verification Internet security organization, was a natural progression for the Google Book Project. The CATPCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers ...

Competition That Works: Why the Google Books Project Is Good for Consumers and Its Competitors The Internet is a great device for creating new markets, democratizing knowledge, and increasing ...