In its testimony to Congress regarding its book digitization program, Google said it anticipates that devices such as Amazon's Kindle will "revolutionize the way some people read books where users buy ...

Google is cagey about exactly how it scans books for its digital library effort, but a patent reveals details--and the hurdles competitors face. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The Complutense University of Madrid is becoming the first library in a non-English-speaking country to join Google's bid to scan every book in print, as the controversial project extends its global ...

Cornell University’s library has joined the Google Book Search project. The university announced today that the search company will digitize up to 500,000 works from its collections and make them ...

Susan Wojcicki, best-known as the head of YouTube, but who also played a key role in convincing the book world to allow Google to scan books into its search engine, died August 9 from lung cancer. She ...

Host Jonathan Kirsch, an attorney specializing in intellectual property and publishing law, moderates a panel discussion on a landmark literary-legal settlement. It allows Google to scan and make ...

Google says it needs until Friday to come up with a new proposal that would give it the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. The new timetable approved Monday by a federal judge is the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest chapter is about to unfold in a four-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project. Google Inc. and the publishers suing the company have until ...