Google Book Search, Publishers say: No fair use

The latest developments - January 2007 - ...

January 2007

• The University of Texas at Austin becomes the newest partner in the project (Google / University News Release)

• Google starts integrating its popular mapping service with its books search engine, to let people plot on maps references to places they find in books (Digit)

   

February 2007

• The Princeton University Library and Google have agreed on a six-year contract to make the full text of about one million books from the library available online through Google Book Search.

March 2007

• The Munich-based Bavarian State Library, one of the biggest libraries in the German-speaking world, which contains around 9 million volumes in total, is to make about 1 million books available to the Google Book Search (ZDnet)

Mai 2007

• The Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne in Switzerland is the fifth European Library, and the first French-language library, to partner with the Google Book Search program.

June 2007

• Google is making its Book Search engine available to publishers interested in putting it on their Web sites (Techworld)

December 2007

• Columbia University has joined the Google Book Search Library Project and will have its public domain titles digitized and available for full-text searching online. Columbia is 28th Institution in Google's Library Project.