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EU Alternative to Google Books
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As controversy continues to swirl around Google, the EU is coming up with PLan B.7 hours ago -
Free books from Google
Contemporary Retirement Coaching Blog —
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If, like me, youve always got your nose in a book, youre going to love the fact that you can now download over a million Public Domain books from Google Books . Just go to www.books.google.com , find a book you want to read and click on the Download button in the toolbar. Over one million books... Even Id ...10 hours ago -
Classic Baptist Histories Now Available at Google Books
Between The Times —
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For those of you who might be interested, Google Books has finished scanning all volumes of the two most important early histories of the British Baptists. Thomas Crosby (1685-1750) was a pastor in London and the first Baptist historian. He was also the son-in-law of Benjamin Keach, who was one of the three key ...1 day ago -
TCLP 2009-11-29 News
The Command Line —
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This is news cast 198. In the intro, a quick Philcon recap. See my earlier post for more. This week’s security alerts are details on an exploitable flaw in older versions of MSIE including news of an actual exploit and the latest iPhone worm snags bank credentials . In this week’s news research ...2 days ago -
My e-book Thanksgiving list
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...5 days ago -
Should Google Books worry publishers?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
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Ron Miller at Fierce Content Management has obtained a review unit of Astak’s EZReader Pocket Pro (the same one I’ve been reviewing in recent weeks) and used it to examine Google’s e-book offerings . It is not clear from the article whether he downloaded the PDF or EPUB versions of the books he chose to read. ...5 days ago -
Following Up for the Week of 11/22/2009
The Command Line —
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Skepticism over approval of latest Books settlement terms Creative Commons cited in the amended Books settlement Public access remains in revised Books settlement Evaluating competition with revised Books settlement Pam Samuelson on abiding issues with revised Books settlement Judge Chen gives ...1 week ago -
Cory Doctorow in support of copyright
Joho the Blog —
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In this edition of Radio Berkman, Cory Doctorow argues in favor of copyright … the part of copyright that protects the rights of readers to own (and not just license) books. It being Cory, the discussion covers topics such as the way in which books are like dogs and his sentimental attachment to his digital ...1 week ago -
Google Books Settlement Proceedings to Drag on Until Mid-February
Digital Daily —
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The latest revision of the Google Books settlement has been granted preliminary approval by a New York district judge, though it will be some time before approval is finalized–if it is finalized. Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District of New York said Thursday that he will hold a hearing Feb. 18 on the new ...1 week ago -
Google Books Gives Up To Cover Japanese Publication To Avoid Int’l Legal Conflicts
Asiajin —
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Google submitted a revised settlement to the NY Federal Court Friday seeking approval of an agreement that would clear the way for continuing operation of Google Books , Google’s book retrieval and online sales service. To avoid legal conflicts with publishers and authors in Japan, France and Germany, the ...1 week ago -
Pournelle and Mackenzie on preserving civilization
Summa Minutiae —
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From scifi author Jerry Pournelle in the March 1983 number of Survive magazine: Probably the most valuable book I own is MacKenzies 10,000 Formulas. Published in 1868, it has 400 pages telling how to make everything known about at the time. The section on medicines is useful only for amusement, but MacKenzie shows ...1 week ago -
Product guide to Google media solutions
D' Technology Weblog —
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Google developed a free “Creative Canvas: A guide to Google media solutions” that features the Google media products and tools, such as YouTube ad solutions, APIs, and OpenSocial, that have brought to life some of most innovative and creative campaigns on Google platform. Andve organized it by the categories ...1 week ago -
Revised Google Books Settlement: Orphan works and competition
IP Osgoode —
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Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto.Last Friday, Google filed a revised settlement agreement for the class action law suit regarding its Google Book Search service. The settlement addresses many complaints directed at the original proposed settlement in October 2008. The two most important of ...1 week ago -
Since Theodore Roosevelt was the last President before Obama who could actually write…
More or Less Bunk —
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…this is now at the top of my Google Books reading list: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography .1 week ago -
An Unpoular View of Google Books
PogoWasRight.org —
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Larry Downes writes: I’m starting to feel like the only person who thinks the Google Books settlement with authors and publishers is a good deal. One voice that seems not to be heard, however, over the din of Google competitors, panicky law professors, and regulators who wouldn’t know a workable solution to a ...2 weeks ago -
Google backs out of NewsHour Google Books debate
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
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Per Michael Arrington at TechCrunch , Google backed out of a debate on Google Books that was supposed to air on Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour show yesterday. The stated reason was that the Open Content Alliance changed their representative at the last minute from a professor to a lawyer. Google did not want to put an ...2 weeks ago -
Printing Books on Demand
Swiss Army Librarian —
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A couple weeks ago I posted about new options for printing books , in which I mentioned Google’s Expresso book-on-demand printer. I found out that the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge has one, so I went to check it out. I still really like this as a source for out-of-print books to fill out a library’s ...2 weeks ago -
The Google-Books Settlement: A Lawsuit Ripe for . . . Congress?
WSJ.com: Law Blog —
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The deadlock over the Google books settlement moved a little late last week when Google agreed to relinquish some control over the fate of so-called orphan works. But some are saying that the court-system is ill-equipped to deal with the situation, which needs a legislative fix.2 weeks ago -
Googles Mission: to Digitize the Worlds Books and Make Them Universally Monetizable by Google
Digital Daily —
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Google (GOOG), the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have submitted a new version of their digital book settlement and while it does make concessions to the Department of Justice and others who’ve raised concerns about how the settlement may violate antitrust laws , it doesn’t seem to ...2 weeks ago -
Writers leery of Google plan to sell out-of-print books
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A union representing Canadian writers says its leery of Googles proposed move into digital sales of out-of-print books.2 weeks ago
