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 include both ...

With Google and book publishers embroiled in a legal drama, Microsoft Corp. is entering the plot with an approach more likely to be found in a romance novel. Microsoft's MSN unit is working on its own ...

In a retro twist on the Google Books idea, HP has announced a partnership with the University of Michigan library to sell physical copies of over 500,000 rare and out-of-print works, while making the ...

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 ...

As their long-running legal battle continues, Google has asked a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits brought by authors’ and photographers’ groups over its book-scanning service. According to Bloomberg ...

Google has apologized to a Chinese authors’ group over its scanning of books by local writers into an online search system, moving to defuse copyright concerns around the project in China. The Chinese ...