Category: Books
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Opinions on Google Book Search
Early last week I read a pretty interesting piece by George Dyson called Turing’s Cathedral; it’s a summary of a talk he gave during a visit to Google HQ last month. Most of the article went over my head, but the quote he used to close the piece really struck a chord: "When our machines…
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Google Print is Renamed Google Book Search
Via SearchEngine Watch: Google Print is Renamed Google Book Search.
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Busy Day for Digital Books: News from Amazon and Google
Search Engine Watch reports that Amazon will begin allowing customers to purchase individual pages from certain books: Busy Day for Digital Books: News from Amazon and Google. Another press release had a great quote showing to whom this is going to be of interest (hint – it’s our students): "For scholars and people who are…
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Google-brary- The Status Quo of Tomorrow’s MegaLibrary
Last night’s panel discussion was, for me, worth the trip to California all by itself. Expertely moderated by Stephen Abram, the panel consisted of Mark Sandler, University of Michigan, Rich Wiggins, Michigan State University, Steve Arnold, Arnold Information Technology, Roy Tennant, User Services Architect with the California Digital Library, Adam Smith, Senior Business Product Manager…
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Wikibooks takes on textbook industry
Interesting idea… Link: Wikibooks takes on textbook industry. if Jimmy Wales and his colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation have anything to say about it, you could have another way to go–the Wikibooks project. It’s their attempt to create a comprehensive, kindergarten-to-college curriculum of textbooks that are free and freely distributable, based on an open-source development…
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Amazon.ca Launches “Search Inside”
Amazon.ca Launches “Search Inside” Amazon.ca today announced the launch of its Search Inside! feature which allows consumers to find and discover books by searching the full text inside them, not just matches to author or title keywords. [via Digital Home Canada] Wow, this has been available so long (since 2003) on the main Amazon.com site…
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Rex Libris
Great link found on Stephen Abram’s site – a new graphic novel with a librarian as a hero 🙂 A librarian seems to be an unlikely hero and protagonist for a comic series. Thoughts? This is just what they want you to think. There’s a lot librarians don’t want you to know. Everything that’s been…
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Free Public Domain and Copyrighted e-Books Online
Sam Vaknin offers a really nice roundup of places to find free eBooks online. We’ve all seen some of these repositories, but a good number of them were new to me, and may be to you as well. Check it out! Link: FreePint Newsletter 186 – eBooks and Knowledge Management.
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eContent: Creating Your Own eBooks with Google Print
Rich over at eContent has a nice Breeze tutorial on how to get to the searchable TOC of a Google Print ebook: eContent: Creating Your Own eBooks with Google Print.
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NetLibrary/Recorded Books Online Interview
I missed this yesterday, so contacted Tom to see if there’s an arvhive of the interview, and there is, at http://www.opal-online.org/archiveinterviews.htm. NetLibrary/Recorded Books Online Interview Interested in digital audiobooks? Join Tom Peters for an online interview with Paul Cappuzzello and Gillian Harrison on NetLibrary/Recorded Books. The interview is scheduled for Monday, June 13, 2005 beginning…