Tuesday, May 24, 2011 12:01 AM/EST
Google eBooks has seen 2.5 million downloads on Android, Chrome OS and Apple iOS platforms since their launch 6 months ago. Also, there are 3 million free works, with 250 indie booksellers and 7,000 publishers on board.
Thursday, December 23, 2010 12:01 AM/EST
Google eBooks launched Dec. 6 with some fanfare but was quickly overshadowed by the Samsung Nexus S introduction. Even so, a quick test showed eBooks to do the trick.
Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:58 AM/EST
Google Editions is unique in that it doesn't specify certain devices or get wrapped up in DRM controls. But it's still going against an well established market, where Amazon is the Google of the e-reader domain. So I say why bother?
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:27 PM/EST
Google's struggles with copyright holders continue, as the American Society of Media Photographers and other photographic artist groups bands together to file a class action copyright infringement suit against Google April 7.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:00 AM/EST
Today, Feb. 18 may be Judgment Day for Google's Book Search settlement, which has been more than five years in the making. If the judge orders Google to undertake another revision to assuage the DOJ's concerns -- namely that it affords Google "anticompetitive advantages --Google may find the revisions the government agency is asking for untenable and abandon the deal outright.
Monday, January 04, 2010 2:58 PM/EST
Google Book Search was the subject of a rousing debate Dec. 30, courtesy of PBS NewsHour, which pitted Google Book Search engineer Dan Clancy versus Gary Reback, the lawyer of Microsoft antitrust fame and a vocal opponent of GBS via the Open Book Alliance.
Friday, November 20, 2009 1:59 PM/EST
New York District Court Judge Denny Chin granted preliminary approval to the new Google Book Search settlement. But if the DOJ requested more changes, they would likely be of the sort that would be unsatisfactory to Google, which has its own stubborn ideas of how to do things. Larry and Sergey are right; anyone who disagrees is wrong.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:26 PM/EST
New York District Judge Denny Chin in a status hearing today ordered that changes to the Google Book Search settlement must be presented in court by Nov. 9. Considering that it took the defendant and plaintiffs nearly four years to reach a settlement agreement -- this battle dates to 2005 -- maybe a month to revise this deal is Sisyphean?
Monday, September 21, 2009 10:57 AM/EST
This past Saturday, I participated on This Week in Google, a Netcast hosted by Twit TV founder Leo Laporte and hosts/bloggers Jeff Jarvis and Gina Trapani. Most of the talk time was devoted to the Google Book Search deal, which of course dominates the news these days. This is going to take some time to suss out. Google and the authors and publishers will have to make changes, agree on them, then resubmit their settlement proposal to the New York court, only to bear the scrutiny all over again.
Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:15 PM/EST
Danny Sullivan asks Google CEO Eric Schmidt whether Google, which has already crafted a template of a complex system for scanning books online and licensing their use to readers, would go back to "square one."