With Google’s help, it is becoming increasingly easier for students to ditch their paperbacks and hardcover textbooks for e-readers and iPads. The option partly stems from the University’s involvement ...

The least likely path is that Google would fold up the Google Books library scanning project, decide that it’s just not worth the hassle and risk, and continue to offer for sale authorized ...

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 ...

The library portion of the Google Book Search service has landed Google in hot water with some publishers and authors.

As part of a partnership between the Google Book Library Project and University Libraries to digitize the University’s collection, Google has been scanning images of a large majority of the Libraries’ ...

Other participants in the Google books library project include the Complutense University of Madrid, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, a number of U.S. universities and the New York Public Library.

While the Open Content Alliance (OCA) is sidestepping copyright issues by only digitizing books that are out of copyright, the Google Books Library Project is digitizing any books it can, but only ...

The university committed to providing Google with access to at least 600 books per day during the first 60 days of the project, and to later increase that number to at least 3,000 books per day.

Last year, Google reached a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers who argued that Google Books Library Project violated their copyrights.

Google Inc notched a legal victory in its bid to create the world's largest digital books library, winning the reversal of a court order that had allowed authors challenging the project to sue as ...

If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated files, use these tools to tidy it up.