July 20th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Larissa Fontaine, New Business Development ManagerAt Google we’ve always believed in helping users discover more books, and that anyone, anywhere, anytime should have the tools to explore the great works of history and culture. Back in March…
July 20th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Guest post by Chris Anderson, AuthorMy new book, FREE: The Future of a Radical Price, is about a counterintuitive notion: that you can make money by giving things away. Actually, it’s pretty surprising that is still controversial, given that it’s t…
July 15th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Okan Kolak, Research EngineerAs Joseph Addison put it, “reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”. So to help you get your daily exercise, starting today we’re offering you a new channel to explore the Google Books index, by postin…
July 9th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Tamar Fruchtman, Senior Corporate CounselIn May, the University of Michigan announced an expanded agreement with Google that will take advantage of our settlement agreement to make millions of works from its library collection accessible to r…
July 7th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ryan Sands, Google Books Online TeamIt may come as no surprise to the book nerds out there (you know who you are), but the annals of written history are full of visual gems.When you come across something amazing in a public domain title scann…
July 2nd, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Casey Ho, Software EngineerAt Google we want to make it easy for you to find the information you need. As such, we’ve made searching for passages within a book part of the core experience of Google Books.Earlier this month we revamped the se…
July 1st, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Diego Puppin, Software EngineerIn his 1979 novel Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore (If on a winter’s night a traveler), Italian writer Italo Calvino imagines a character, Lotaria, who uses an “electronic brain” to read her books. Her comp…
June 26th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Roland Lange, Strategic Partner Development ManagerGeorge Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair 106 years ago on June 25. He is most famous for his last book 1984- one of the most influential books of the 20th century and still blowing minds in …
June 23rd, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ryan Sands, Google Books Online TeamIt may come as no surprise to the book nerds out there (you know who you are), but the annals of written history are full of visual gems.When you come across something amazing in a public domain title scann…
June 18th, 2009 | by Brandon Badger | published in Google Books
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager, Google BooksThink about how you use a book. You want to read it, sure–but there are a host of other ways for you to interact with the words between the covers. You might want to flip through the pages to fi…
June 9th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ryan Sands, Google Books Online TeamIt may come as no surprise to the book nerds out there (you know who you are), but the annals of written history are full of visual gems.When you come across something amazing in a public domain title scann…
June 5th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ryan Sands, Google Books Online TeamThis week, a Google software engineer named Matt Cutts posted a great Google Books tip on the Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel. Using a simple USB-powered barcode scanner, Matt shows how you can eas…
June 1st, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing ManagerYou may have noticed new logos on Google properties like Google News or Google Maps. As we said last week on the Official Google Blog, we hope these designs freshen our look and improve consis…
May 6th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ryan Sands, Book Search Online TeamIt may come as no surprise to the book nerds out there (you know who you are), but the annals of written history are full of visual gems.When you come across something amazing in a public domain title scanne…
April 22nd, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ryan Sands, Book Search Online TeamIt may come as no surprise to the book nerds out there (you know who you are), but the annals of written history are full of visual gems.When you come across something amazing in a public domain title scanne…