Posted by Jeffrey Peng, Software Engineer, Google Books I'm a software engineer on Google Books. One of my main projects is adding magazine content and features to the site. In September we were excited to announce the availability of over 1,860 issues of the iconic LIFE magazine on Google Books . One of the feature requests that I got from friends and family was to add a way to browse all the magazines...
Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager, Google Books Following our first announcement this week, here is the third and final set of winning entries for the 10 Days in Google Books contest. As a reminder, to enter the contest users had to submit a short essay describing what the experience of reading will be like in 100 years. "Out jogging, Jim spied a news stand, its spire...
Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager, Google Books Following our first announcement this week, here is the second set of winning entries for the 10 Days in Google Books contest. As a reminder, to enter the contest users had to submit a short essay describing what the experience of reading will be like in 100 years. "It's Earth Memorial Day. Under the Martian sunset's romantic...
Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager, Google Books In his 1901 book Anticipations , H.G. Wells predicted how the world would develop in the 20th century. Here with a different set of predictions are the winners from the 10 Days in Google Books contest we held this summer. To enter the contest, users had to submit a short essay describing what the experience of reading will be...
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager When I was a kid I used to enjoy thumbing through a collection of older magazines that my grandfather had at his house. I remember flipping through the pages and feeling as though I was peeking through a window into life from decades past. Unfortunately, we lost my grandfather's magazines some time ago, and we've never quite managed to recreate his collection....
[caption id="attachment_7047" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="Innovation Ireland Google IDA print - click for the IDA"][/caption] Innovation Ireland is launching an awareness campaign from this month. The campaign will feature in the Financial Times, the San Jose Mercury News, The Economist, the Harvard Business Review, Fortune Magazine and Wired, the...
MORE than two million books in the public domain can be turned into instant paperbacks under a deal announced between Google and the company behind a high-speed book-printing machine. Google, which is scanning millions of out-of-copyright books as ...
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager I'm a sucker for a cool piece of technology. The Espresso Book Machine, which can print a book in minutes before your eyes, fits the bill. If sentient robots ever succeed in taking over the world, this is how they will print their books. We founded Google Books on the premise that anyone, anywhere, anytime should have the tools to explore the great works of...
Update: the hits for us in Google Print are up to 420. 10/14/07: Search for us at print.google.com and you will get 189 hits . That's my books and publications and the number of scholars in Google's corpus who have made reference to my publications. What is Google Print? Google's mission is to organize the world's information, but much of that information isn't yet online. Google Print aims to get...
Posted by Jane Horvath, Global Privacy Counsel (Cross-posted from the Google Public Policy Blog ) We're excited about the wide range of support that the Google Books settlement has received. Some people have asked how Google's privacy practices apply to Books and the settlement, and, last month, we published an extensive FAQ . Since last spring, we've had detailed discussions with a number of groups...
In the Terminator franchise, “Skynet” is a computer network that has become self-aware. It thinks that it knows everything and it is trying to take over the world—starting by killing all of the attractive humans in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. Sometimes, it feels like Google is trying to copy Skynet. The company’s goal is [...]
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager Over the years, we've heard a lot from people who've unearthed hidden treasures in Google Books: a crafter who uncovered a forgotten knitting technique, a family historian who discovered her ancestor once traveled the country with a dancing, roller-skating bear. The books they found were out of copyright and in the public domain, which meant they could read...
Posted by Guillaume Poncin, Software Engineer Library books often contain beautiful drawings and illustrations. Unfortunately, their book covers can often be dark and plain, hiding all this wonderful content from unsuspecting eyes. Over time, we've tried a bunch of different approaches for getting better covers, for example, using the book's title page or recreating a simple book cover by featuring...
Posted by Philippe Colombet, Strategic Partnership Development Manager, Europe When we launched Google Books, one of our goals was to bring the world's lost literature back to life. Many older books which are out of copyright (so-called public domain works) have been languished in the difficult-to-reach corridors of the world's great libraries. If you are a student at Oxford or Harvard, you might have...
Posted by Xian Ke, Associate Product Manager, Google Books Today, we're launching an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to download, use, and share their work via Google Books....
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