Google today is launching a new feature for Google Books which aims to offer a better challenge to Amazon’s Kindle app when it comes to helping you find new things to read. Called “Discov
A Supreme Court order issued today closes the book on (or perhaps merely ends this chapter of) more than a decade of legal warfare between Google and the Authors Guild over the legality of the former'
Google today launched an upgrade to its Google Play Books store for Android that will make it easier to read comics on your phone and tablet. The company also today introduced personalized comic recom
The Google Books Ngram Viewer got a new set of features today that will make it useful for more advanced research in corpus linguistics by adding wildcards and the ability to search for inflection
Google's <a target="_blank" href="http://books.google.com/ngrams">Ngram Viewer for Google Books</a>, a tool that lets you see how the usage of specific words has increased and decreased over time, <a
The American Booksellers Association sent a letter to its members today announcing that Google was putting an end to its reseller program, which allowed independent bookstores to operate an e-book sto
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Two weeks ago the <a href="http://books.google.com/ebooks">Google eBookstore</a> finally <a href="https://techcrun
Google Books is one of the most straightforward projects in the Google meta-project of cataloguing and indexing every piece of data in the world. The human race has, after all, only been literate for
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The latest twist in the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/09/settling-the-google-
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<img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/android.jpg" />Always nice for a reporter to bump into a developer who builds mobile applications for startups and gives you a live pre
Google is adding a feature to its Google Books service today to allow PDF downloads of out-of-copyright books. For example, to download a pdf version of Dante’s Inferno, see the right sidebar of
Google Books, a program that’s been controversial in the US, has reportedly penned a deal with four publishing houses in China. Rival Baidu has deals with Chinese libraries instead; its program