If you guessed London, you’re right—London is mentioned at least three times more often than any other European city. (Wonder why?) As Travel Daily reports, a digital printing company called Aura Print has apparently processed the entire Google Books database to “identify the cumulative mentions... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-08-22 14:51:06 UTC ]
A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in its high-profile case against a group of four US publishers led by Hachette Book Group. Per Reuters, Judge John G. Koeltl declared on Friday the nonprofit had infringed on the group’s copyrights by lending out digitally scanned copies of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-03-25 16:46:29 UTC ]
And. And. And. And. And. For whatever reason that specific string of words seems to be enough to permanently brick a Google Docs page. Noted Google's support pages mere hours ago, the poster who seemingly discovered this unusual bug is quick to point out that the series of five conjunctions,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-05-05 21:36:09 UTC ]
This is your guide to discovering free Google books and creating your own Google books library, with both classic and contemporary titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-04-13 10:34:51 UTC ]
Research combed from everything from movie tickets to social media finds more to focus on but less time to do soIt’s just as you suspected; the information age has changed the general attention span. A recently published study from researchers at the Technical University of Denmark suggests the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
While working on a recent story about hate speech spread by telephone in the ’60s and ’70s, I came across an interesting book that had been digitized by Google Books. Unfortunately, while it was a transcript of a Congressional hearing, and therefore should be in the public domain and not subject... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Perhaps the biggest question to come from Pierre Leval’s written opinion in the extraordinary case of Google Books, is how it might ripple into the day-to-day application of fair use in higher education. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 1990, Pierre N. Leval, then serving as a federal judge, ran across an unexpected stumbling block while crafting a Harvard Law Review article about the “fair use” doctrine of American copyright law. To wit, he was worried that quoting his own cases, exactly as they had been published in law... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sometimes it isn’t enough for data to be big. Consider Google Books, a searchable archive digital archive of millions of texts spanning the history of the printed word. This enormous corpus has inspired researchers to rethink the ways we map the history of language, allowing them to make... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
You can take the book out of the library but you can't take the library out of the book.Krissy Wilson's Tumblr project, The Art Of Google Books, works on our nostalgia for both the printed word and our (now long gone) wide-eyed awe at digitizing it. Google Books was born in 2004, when accessing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
We are now living in a history glut; the Internet has muddled the line between past and present. As our past gets closer and closer to the present and the line separating our now from our then dissolves, we're approaching an odd sort of asymptote. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Much as we admired the potential of the YotaPhone in our recent review, we just couldn't overlook its lack of support for popular e-reading platforms like Amazon Kindle and Google Books. That problem hasn't been solved just yet, but things are ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. Don't pack your bags just yet, but Hubble has found indirect evidence of water on five different planets -- a lot of it, in some cases. Bigger brains ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
On November 14, Judge Denny Chin dismissed the long-running Authors Guild suit against Google, ruling that the digitization of books for Google Book Search is fair use. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google Books is great at helping you find interesting reads, and makes it easy to view them online from just about any device. The service isn’t quite as versatile when it comes to letting you download local copies in a format of your choice, unfortunately, but that’s where FSS Google Books... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild is seeking more than $2 billion in damages from Google Books – which may make this one of the most expensive copyright damages cases in litigation history. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sometime ago, I pledged to wait on reading the Harry Potter series until it came out as ebooks. I was ready and willing for October's planned debut on Google Books, but that was cancelled last minute. What happened instead mindboggles. In late March, author JK Rowling opened the Pottermore Shop... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Between Google Books, iBooks, Nook, Kindle, Kobo, Sony... you'd figure the ebook field was crowded enough, right? Well, if you're specifically in the market for children's stories, things might look a little less packed. We guess that's why Scholastic is attempting to enter the fray with Storia,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google Books is a gigantic and ever-expanding online library of books and magazines that can be used to read classic titles free of charge as well as to purchase new releases in all manner of categories. But you may be one of the many people who have found that the interface for the website and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google Books and the French online publication ActuaLitté have launched a digital library... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]