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Google Books lists 4 new classics for free
Android Police Google Books lists 4 new classics for free4 By Chandraveer Mathur Published 13 hours ago Source Link: Google Books lists 4 new classics for free
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Belgium: KU Leuven Libraries, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) and Google to Put Thousands of Books and Historic Documents Online
From a KU Leuven Announcement: Image Source: KBR KU Leuven Libraries, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) and Google signed agreements to share a large portion of important digitized documents reflecting the rich cultural and historical heritage located in the libraries. This entails several thousand works, some dating back to the 15th century, that will be…
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Book Mentions, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, from Google’s Book Scan Project, 1990-2008
Over at Google’s Ngram Viewer, I put in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, from 1990 through 2008, to see the frequency of mention in scanned books by Google. Below is the resulting chart. Here’s the link for the active research, if you’d care to try your own project… WordPress.com won’t let us use iframe or…
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What Google’s Victory Against the Authors Guild Means for Readers and Libraries – The Atlantic
After all, as Judge Leval emphasized: “While authors are undoubtedly important intended beneficiaries of copyright, the ultimate, primary intended beneficiary is the public.” It may have taken 10 years, but that crucial reminder of copyright’s goal is anything but dated and inconsequential. It will serve all of us as we think about how books are…
