Scanning and digitizing one book costs $60. Scanning and digitizing the University’s 7.7 million printed works would cost $462 million. A price as steep as that makes it easy to understand why the ...

The Google Books Project Google Books consists of two parts: the Partner Program and the Library Project. In the Partner Program, the rights holders, primarily publishers, grant Google the right to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned the reasoning behind a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc over its effort to digitize millions of books, suggesting that ...

The class action lawsuit against Google was filed in the U.S. District for the Southern District of New York, and seeks to protect the owners of visual works copyrights from the "massive and organized ...

In the latest twist in the long-running battle over Google’s mass book-scanning project, a group of academic authors has filed an amici curiae brief in support of the libraries that supplied the works ...

Google won an important legal victory on Friday, when the Second United States Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s judgment in its years-long battle with the Authors Guild over Google ...

Google is reportedly working on a plan that would allow consumers to download books to their computers to be read online or on mobile devices like BlackBerrys. The Times of London reports that the ...

Google has set for itself the agenda to become the world's chronicler of... well, almost everything. From mapping out every location to the massive '˜Google Books' project of scanning every written ...

Google unveiled its plans during a Tuesday book industry event in New York, as reported by The Wall Street Journal and other outlets. According to the Journal, the event, sponsored by the Book ...

Google Inc. has expanded its controversial book search service to allow people to download whole copies of books in PDF format to their computers with the ability to print them out. The feature went ...