Posted by Daniel Hirsch, Google Books Online TeamWhen we’re not out scanning and subsequently trying to read all the world’s books, some of us on the Google Books team actually like to watch television. So it is with some remorse that we watched Sunday…
Posted by Abe Murray, product manager, Google Books Tomorrow, Sat. 10/16, the second annual Boston Book Festival is expected to attract more than 25,000 attendees to celebrate, discover and learn about books. We’ll be there to celebrate with them bec…
Posted by James Crawford, engineering director, Google BooksThis morning I’ll be speaking on the topic of the present and future of Google Books at the Europeana Open Culture conference at Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. Now as much as ever, our share…
Posted by Cheryl Pon, Books Online Team[Please note, some images in this post may not be available in full view to users outside of the United States.]As video games become ever more popular, I’ve begun to wonder how pre-video game generations kept the…
Posted by Cheryl Pon, Google Books Online TeamAnyone who has read Leo Tolstoy knows that curling up with War and Peace or Anna Karenina is no easy feat. At nearly 700 pages apiece, each novel offers adventure, history, views on social reform, morality,…
Posted by Cheryl Pon, Google Books Online Team[Please note, some images in this post may not be available in full view to users outside of the United States.]Now that it’s early September and we’re officially in the dog days of summer, what better …
Posted by Archi Sarkar, Google Books Online TeamIf you thought you knew everything there is to know about chocolate, think again! This world famous decadent dessert certainly has some dark secrets of its own – a treasure that has been enriched over the…
Posted by Leonid Taycher, software engineerWhen you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?”Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean …
Posted by Archi Sarkar, Google Books Online TeamPortrait of Emily Jane Brontë (Source: LIFE Magazine)No coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:I see Heaven’s glories shine,And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.– Em…
Posted by Will Brockman, Software EngineerAs an undergraduate I dabbled in Classics, and I remember being surprised by the term hapax legomenon (ἅπαξ λεγόμενον). That’s “written once” — a word that occurs in only one place in the written…
Posted by Annabella Weisl, Strategic Partner Manager, Google BooksGregor Mendel, the nineteenth century Austro-Hungarian scientist, is an ancestor of modern genetic studies. His paper, Experiments on Plant Hybrids, helped early twentieth century scie…
Posted by Ramsey Allington, Google Books ManagerOne of the early pioneers in the library project, the University of California became a Google Books partner in 2006. Since then, over two million books have been made available online from the UC’s vast …
Posted by Ryan Sands, Books Online TeamLast February we ran our Parisian Love ad during the Super Bowl. It was composed simply of Google searches and a little music. Other Search Stories ads followed, along with hilarious parodies from our users. To he…
Posted by Agnes Taterode, Google Books Support TeamGot a question about using Google Books, or curious about promoting your books on Google for free? The Google Books Help Forum is now available for questions of all shapes and sizes. With so many rea…
Posted by Ramsey Allington & Jodi Healy Pritchett, Partner ManagersSince we launched our partnership with the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, we have been working hard to make their unique Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection accessible t…