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 ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — In a dimly lit backroom on the second level of the University of Michigan library’s book-shelving department, Courtney Mitchel helped a giant desktop machine digest a rare, ...

Susan Wojcicki, best-known as the head of YouTube, but who also played a key role in convincing the book world to allow Google to scan books into its search engine, died August 9 from lung cancer. She ...

In a retro twist on the Google Books idea, HP has announced a partnership with the University of Michigan library to sell physical copies of over 500,000 rare and out-of-print works, while making the ...

With Google and book publishers embroiled in a legal drama, Microsoft Corp. is entering the plot with an approach more likely to be found in a romance novel. Microsoft's MSN unit is working on its own ...

As their long-running legal battle continues, Google has asked a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits brought by authors’ and photographers’ groups over its book-scanning service. According to Bloomberg ...

Google must still defend its scanning against lawsuit by the Authors Guild. This is a great service not sure what all the hubbub is about... I would love to see some of these texts in their "original ...