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7.2 Google books
Google Books
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With Google books search, we can search over the full text of some seven million books.
The books come from two sources, the Library Project and the Partner Program. For
Library Project books that are still in copyright, the results are like a card catalog; it
shows us info about the book and, generally, a few snippets of text showing your
search term in context. For Partner Program books, we can flip through a few preview
pages of these books, just like you'd browse them at a bookstore or library. You'll also
see links to libraries and bookstores where you can borrow or buy the book.
is the project to make book content more discoverable on the Web.
According to the Google Books Settlement Agreement, millions of in-copyright,
out-of-print books, would be greater exposed to enable students, scholars, and readers
to search, preview, and purchase online access to these works; it will open new
opportunities for authors and publishers to sell their copyrighted works and to maintain
ongoing control over the ways those books can be displayed, etc.
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally
accessible and useful. Now Google consider this agreement is a real win-win for
everyone, the real victors are all the readers. As it says on official Google books
websites, “We hope and expect that this leap forward with our friends and partners in
the publishing industry is just the first of many. We love books at Google, and our
fondest dream is that Book Search will evolve into a service that ensures that books,
along with their authors and publishers, will flourish for many years into the future.”
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The Future of Google Books-Our groundbreaking agreement with authors and publishers.
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/
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