Google Book Search: New partnerships and tools - Embeddable Google Books
D' Technology Weblog — ... , which make it easier for web developers and site owners to enable this functionality on their own sites, as well. Now you can embed in a site any book available at Google Book Search. You can add a fully-functional widget using this code: ...

Google Offers Embeddable Books
SolSie.com — ... You can search millions of online books at Google Book Search . The site lets you if you want to embed the book to your Web site or your Social site similarly to YouTube videos but with text books. Yu0  can also  a fully-functional widget using this code:   You should replace GkCpLIk7aisC with the corresponding book ID. [Via ...

Google Books on booksellers’ websites
Gadgetell — ... Google has caught my attention with its latest enhancement on Google Books.  In its efforts to further increase the usage of their Google Books service, Google has worked with major online booksellers such as Books-a-Million and Borders.com to allow previews of books on their own websites.  This means customers will be able to enjoy the convenience of previewing books of their choice without ever having to leave the retailers’ sites.  This is a very useful service, particularly for the retailers, because they wouldn’t need to ...

Google Books Search “Halloween Section”
D' Technology Weblog — ... a special Halloween books section on Google Book Search that features a bunch of the best scary classics on the front page:  ...

Barcode Scanner application for Android Phones: Search physical books with Android
D' Technology Weblog — ... This is the first release of this program, so there may be some hiccups. Most of the books supported by this tool were printed in the mid-1990s or later, because it took some time for ISBN barcoding standards to stabilize. And of course, not every book is on Google Book Search. Yet even with these limitations, it’s a lot of fun to search through a paper book using your mobile device, and I think the tool opens up new ways to experience printed works. ...

The connected book (and how to make soda water)
Boing Boing — ... I've been talking about this quite a bit on the various stops on the book tour, and it's naturally caused some people to ask about my own research method. And it turns out there's a pleasing symmetry between the story the book tells and the information networks of our own time, because this is the first book that I have written where Google Books played an absolutely indispensable role. An amazing number of Priestley's original writings (along with other texts from that period) are available from Google as downloadable PDFs, with scans of the original page design and ...

Google makes 1.5 million books available on mobile, free
Tech Digest — Over the past couple of years, Google's been industriously scanning, cataloguing and digitising millions of books whose content has passed into the public domain. These books have been available for a while on Google Book Search, but now they're available on mobile too. If you point your iPhone or Android browser towards ...

Sony ofrece el acceso a los libros de Google Books gratis
Gizmologia — ... ahora esta nueva guerra se basa en los lectores de libros electrónicos y en el contenido de estos lectores, los mismos eBooks. Ahora Sony quiere intentar llegar al nivel de Amazon con su tienda de libros y su Amazon Kindle de alguna forma. Lo que se les a ocurrido es que todos los lectores eBooks de Sony mediante su tienda online sean capaces de acceder de forma gratuita a todos los libros que han recopilado en Google Books. Se estima que alrededor de 600.000 libros estarán disponibles del catálogo de libros ...

Google-Sony Team Up to Fight Amazon Kindle
Today @ PC World — ... shines the spotlight on Sony Reader in a big way. More than a half-million public domain books published before 1923 will be available for free to Reader customers via the Sony eBook store. The titles were digitized as part of the Google Book Search effort, and since they’re free of copyright entanglements, Google and Sony probably won’t encounter any ...

Amazon Upgrade — 'Read your books online'
bookofjoe — ... recent addition to the site. Long story short: You almost wouldn't notice it (can you find it below?), but it says "Upgrade this book for $7.59 more, and you can read, search, and annotate every page online." Turns out I've previously purchased six books over the past 10 years eligible for an upgrade, at prices ranging from $1 to $5.60 for the additional features. Interesting. Somehow this is meant to compete with Google Book Search but I don't see how it's possible to compete with free. ...

Google's Book Search Deal: 5 Pros and 5 Cons
Today @ PC World — Google Google's Book Search Deal: 5 Pros and 5 Cons The Department of Justice is now looking into Google 's proposed settlement over its Book Search service , sources tell both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal . The inquiry is said to be focused on antitrust concerns surrounding the online book deal. Understanding Google's Settlement The Book Search settlement , announced in October, followed a three-year battle over Google's right to display copyrighted books on its Web site. The Authors Guild and the Association of ...

Barnes & Noble launches e-bookstore
Gizmos for Geeks — ... Barnes & Noble also struck a deal to offer the 500,000 public domain books that Google scanned and has available on Google Books. Just one problem - I can’t seem to find any ‘free’ e-books on ...

¿Es Google la salvación para los eBook frente Amazon?
Gizmologia — ... Actualmente quien manda en este mundo es Amazon, de forma local en EE.UU. pero con un gran peso a nivel internacional. Existen muchísimos lectores de libros electrónicos, pero sin duda ninguno de ellos ofrece un servicio como el de Amazon Kindle y por el que muchas personas son devotas: compra y descarga de libros inalámbricamente estés donde estés. ¿Ante esta oferta que pueden hacer el resto de fabricantes? Mirar a Google, en concreto a Google Books. Un ejemplo, el lector de libros electrónico de Sony ofrece acceso a ...

Sharing public domain works on Google Books
D' Technology Weblog — ... with libraries around the globe, including institutions in Europe such as Bavarian State Library or the Bodleian Library at Oxford, to bring older books which’re out of copyright (so-called public domain works) online so that anyone can discover and read them. Also to help people find these books other than on books.google.com, Google is reaching out to libraries, technology partners, and several prestigious cultural institutions, such as the Spanish National Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale de ...

Google Books open EPUB format for Public Domain Books
D' Technology Weblog — ... format that allows the text to automatically conform (or "reflow") to these smaller screens. And because EPUB is a free, open standard supported by a growing ecosystem of digital reading devices, works you download from Google Books as EPUBs won't be tied to or locked into a particular device. Google will also make available these books in PDF format so you can see images of the pages just as they appear in the printed book. To get started, just find any public domain book on Google Books and click on the Download button in the toolbar. ...

Google Books Offers Free ePub Downloads [Ebooks]
Lifehacker — ... , and anyone else with a device that reads the ePub format can now grab more than 1 million works from Google Books' archives . The books may contain some mistakes, as most were simply scanned and run through an OCR image-to-text process, but it's free content in a free format, which is hard to beat. [ ...

Google Books now supports EPUB format
Gizmos for Geeks — ... to get the industry on board with EPUB, an electronic format for books. That means that all of those public domain books hosted on Google Books are now downloadable in that format on any device that supports it. That includes Sony’s line of eReaders. ...

Lots of Ebook News
Mobility Site — ... In terms of Ebook formats, Google has aimed another shot across Amazon’s bow by coming in more strongly behind the ePub open source format already being pushed by Sony and it’s new readers. According to Google, more then a million open source texts are available in both ePub and PDF formats at Google Books. While Google admits these have been scanned and posted without much QA or text checking, it at least saves you downloading them from Project Gutenberg and converting them yourself. ...

Coolerbooks.com tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
T3.com All — Coolerbooks.com tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help Google Books packaged up into nice PDFs by UK-based e-reader company Interead, which makes an apparently "cool" electronic book reader, has signed a deal with Google to distribute the books of digitised library Google Books on its coolerbooks.com web site. This makes it the first non-US "ebookstore" to offer the over-one-million public domain books gathered together by Google, with the catch being... there's no catch. They're free. There's no law regarding these out-of-copyright books. You can just as easily ...

Coolerbooks.com tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
T3.com News — ... Interead, which makes an apparently "cool" electronic book reader, has signed a deal with Google to distribute the books of digitised library Google Books on its coolerbooks.com web site. ...

COOL-ER tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
T3.com All — Coolerbooks.com tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help Google Books packaged up into nice PDFs by UK-based e-reader company Interead, which makes an apparently "cool" electronic book reader, has signed a deal with Google to distribute the books of digitised library Google Books on its coolerbooks.com web site. This makes it the first non-US "ebookstore" to offer the over-one-million public domain books gathered together by Google, with the catch being... there's no catch. They're free. There's no law regarding these out-of-copyright books. You can just as easily ...

COOL-ER tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
T3.com News — ... Interead, which makes an apparently "cool" electronic book reader called the COOL-ER, has signed a deal with Google to distribute the books of digitised library Google Books on its coolerbooks.com web site. ...

Google Books claims new democracy for print
T3.com News — ... claim to be an online incarnation of Che Guevara, it has has agreed to make a concession when it comes to Europe by agreeing that text, still on sale on this side of the Atlantic, will not be added to Google books.    Stateside, publishers take a 63 per cent share of copyrighted texts ordered from Google Books, while Google keeps 37 per cent of the cash. Out of copyright books are free of charge.   Link: Google Books (via TechRadar)

Google Books claims new democracy for print
T3.com All — ... interest was in helping people to find the books." While we're not sure Google can claim to be an online incarnation of Che Guevara, it has has agreed to make a concession when it comes to Europe by agreeing that books still on sale on this side of the Atlantic will not be added to Google books. Stateside, publishers take a 63 per cent share of copyrighted texts ordered from Google Books, while Google keeps 37 per cent of the cash. Out of copyright books are free of charge. Link: Google Books (via ...

Quick WebApp: Google FastFlip for iPhone
The iPhone Blog — ... the Washington Post, Salon, Fast Company, ProPublica and Newsweek, but the news we’re excited about, and indeed have come to expect from Google is this: We’ve also made a mobile version of Fast Flip [http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/mobile] with tactile page flipping for Android-powered devices and the iPhone, so you can browse on the go. This is accessible at the same address. Now if this were combined with something like Google Books, lets say… A couple more pics after the break. If you try it out, as ...

Google making it possible to print public domain books
CrunchGear — ... Google has been very much about saving out of print books by moving them into a digital format over the last seven years. This has been a part of their Google Book Search project, which involved pulling books out of libraries and scanning them in, and thus preserving them forever. Of course, some people prefer a hard copy, and now that’s going to be a possibility as well, at least at some locations. ...

LIFE Magazine now Available on Google Books
SolSie.com — ... will be able to search and browse LIFE Magazine’s entire run as a weekly: over 1,860 issues, covering the years from 1936 to 1972. Most of us are familiar with the term "American Century," but chances are few of us have been able to read Henry Luce’s defining editorial in its original context , a 1941 issue of LIFE. You’ll be able to find and read Leonard McCombe’s iconic cover and photo essay on a Texas ...

Amazon lanza Kindle en todo el mundo, con datos incluidos y contenido en diferentes idiomas
Gizmologia — ... . Sony también tiene su propia tienda de libros y con un acuerdo con Google Books para poder descargar todos los libros con acceso libre y gratuito. Por suerte Amazon adaptará el catalogo de libros a cada país, por lo que en países hispanohablantes tendremos ediciones en castellano. ...

Hey, Google: Check out this ultra-fast book scanner
CrunchGear — ... Google is using a special camera that’s able to scan books at a rate of 1,000 pages per hour, which doesn’t sound bad at all (I am talking about Google Books of course, the company’s online collection of digitized books ). But now a team at the elite ...