In its testimony to Congress regarding its book digitization program, Google said it anticipates that devices such as Amazon's Kindle will "revolutionize the way some people read books where users buy ...

The Complutense University of Madrid is becoming the first library in a non-English-speaking country to join Google's bid to scan every book in print, as the controversial project extends its global ...

Google Books partners with the British Library to digitize 250,000 books from between 1700 and 1870. Readers will soon be able to access all of the knowledge without the mustiness of old books. Amanda ...

Cornell University’s library has joined the Google Book Search project. The university announced today that the search company will digitize up to 500,000 works from its collections and make them ...

Susan Wojcicki, best-known as the head of YouTube, but who also played a key role in convincing the book world to allow Google to scan books into its search engine, died August 9 from lung cancer. She ...

University libraries and other nonprofit organizations are legally allowed to scan and store books to enable full-text search on Google Books, according to a new federal court ruling handed down ...

Host Jonathan Kirsch, an attorney specializing in intellectual property and publishing law, moderates a panel discussion on a landmark literary-legal settlement. It allows Google to scan and make ...

Google says it needs until Friday to come up with a new proposal that would give it the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. The new timetable approved Monday by a federal judge is the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest chapter is about to unfold in a four-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project. Google Inc. and the publishers suing the company have until ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc, criticized for scanning books without copyright permission, has said it would open its digital library to rivals and bookstores, the search engine giant said on ...

Debbie Elliott and New York Times Magazine ethicist Randy Cohen examine the dilemma that search engine Google poses with its Google Book Search tool. The powerful software can scan whole sections of ...