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The German Cabinet agreed Wednesday to a plan that would fund the digitization of books, pictures, sculptures, notes, music and films and make them available on the Internet. Full Article at Deutsche Welle
This is the fifth in a series of posts about the proposed Google Book Search settlement. Full Article at Electronic Frontier Foundation
French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries. View Photo »
Judge Denny Chin has given his preliminary approval to the Google Book Search settlement agreement and established a timeline to move the agreement toward a final resolution
In a rebuff to Amazon, the federal judge presiding over the Google book search case has refused to reconsider his earlier decision granting preliminary approval to a settlement between the search giant and authors and publishers. Full Article at MediaPost.com
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. , the world’s largest online retailer, failed to persuade a federal judge to withdraw his preliminary approval of a settlement between Google Inc. and groups of authors and publishers over a digital book library. Full Article at Bloomberg.com
Initial orders for new titles will be cut further, shelf lives of slow-moving titles will be shortened and return rates probably will spike to unprecedented levels in the first half of 2009. Full Article at Huffington Post
French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries. View Photo »
Google Book Search is a lot more granular than your reading history at the library or the book store. Google knows what page you looked at. They know what you were looking for on that page, what search terms you used to get to that page, how long you looked for it and so on
They feel that Google Book Search won’t be of much use to undergraduate studies, especially during the first two years of college. The corpus of book will be primarily of use to researchers. Full Article at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
According to Reuters, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said the European Union intends to develop a plan to offer a public and pan-European alternative to Google’s book scanning project. Full Article at Search Engine Land
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French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »Secretary of State for Strategic Studies and the Development of the Digital Economy Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand reflects in a miror during a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand reflects in a miror during a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »A visitor checks out Google's Book Search site at the Google stand of the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 15, 2008. Google is searching for good ideas. The Internet search giant has announced the launch of a venture capital fund to back "young companies with truly awesome potential.
View Photo »French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand attends a press conference on October 26, 2009 at the Culture Ministry in Paris, to present a commission aimed to study a project of digitalisating books from French libraries.
View Photo »Judge Denny Chin has given his preliminary approval to the Google Book Search settlement agreement and established a timeline to move the agreement toward a final resolution
Google Book Search is a lot more granular than your reading history at the library or the book store. Google knows what page you looked at. They know what you were looking for on that page, what search terms you used to get to that page, how long you looked for it and so on
At a status conference held in a crowded New York courtroom this morning, lawyers representing the AAP and Authors Guild told judge Denny Chin they will file an amended agreement with the court by November 9 to address the many concerns raised by the original Google Book Search Settlement
Google Book Search and other digital book projects will redefine the way people read and research
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