Google To Scan Millions Of Italian Books

Google is to launch its own ebook service, the Wall Street Journal has reported yesterday and the online offering, which will be called Editions, will be released some time in June. The search giant has had its eye set...

Google's controversial online book project, Google Books, has been slapped with yet another lawsuit, this time from the American Society of Media Photographers. The entity claims that Google had been scanning and uploading their...

Google Books, the search engine giant's attempt to create a massive online digital library by scanning millions of books, has often come under fire from governments, authors and publishing for scanning literary works of thousands...

Writers of books are preparing to boycott Google’s attempt at building a digital library online, accusing the Web giant of trying to re-write copyright laws. J K Rowling, Philip Pullman and other British authors have...

Google Inc., the California based search engine giant, has agreed to remove the literary works of Chinese authors uploaded on its Google Books database following protests from a group of Chinese authors. Google, which is right...

Google is being sued by Chinese author Mian Mian, who has accused it of scanning her book, Acid House, without her permission and listing it on its Google Books library.  In the copyright infringement lawsuit, which was...

Leading financial news magazine, Business Week, has reported that micro blogging giant Twitter will have a profitable year after the company signed two separate deals with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp which will allow Twitter...

Google Inc has come under fire from a Paris court as it ruled against the search engine giant in a case of copyright infringement slapped on the company by French publisher La Martiniere, which fought the case on behalf of...

Google has suffered a rare setback as the US DoJ (Department of Justice) has openly asked a federal court judge in New York to reject a $125 million settlement.The search giant brokered the deal with the Association of American...

Google confirmed that it is snapping up reCAPTCHA, an internet fraud prevention start-up firm that can help it ramp up the security of its various online services products, for an undisclosed amount. The search engine bellwether...

As expected, a number of prominent groups opposed to Google’s Book Search settlement have filed their court briefs on Tuesday, the last day for filling such briefs, stating their concerns. This ranged from terming the deal...

In an attempt to tone down European publishers’ fears over its plans of books' digitisation, Google confirmed that commercially available European books won’t be placed in its online catalogue of out-of-print works,...

Three of the biggest technology companies in the world, Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo, have come together to fight Google's plans to create the biggest online digital library, Google Books. The three have joined the tentatively...

Taking on the Amazon's dominance in ebook domain, Google has revealed its plans to kick off a digital bookstore for selling ebooks by the end of this year.  Incidentally, the search giant already enables users to look for...

Taking competition in the ebook domains to next level, Google and Sony has inked a deal which would allow Sony to include as many as half-a-million public domain books from the search engine giant into it’s signature Sony...