Archive for the ‘Google Book Search’ Category
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
The recently announced addition of thumbnail navigation to Google Book Search is, unfortunately, only available for full-view. But all magazines in GBS are full-view, so thumbnails are especially useful for them, since [because] they have so many pictures. To use thumnails, go to Read this Magazine (or Book), and click ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Last week New York Times reporter David Carr paid a visit to the GooglePlex, to learn more about Google Book Search. His article on this got little attention, maybe because the title and lead paragraphs didn't communicate that the subject was, in fact, Google Book Search and the Settlement. So ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Why is the Library of Congress not more involved in discussions of Google Book Search and the impending Settlement? Google searching finds virtually no evidence that LC has had any voice at all in the recent flurry of talk on this. For example, these Google web searches pull up only ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
When I first read the passage below in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories three years ago, it struck me as a remarkable word picture of my experience of the Web. So of course I went right to Google to see if anyone else had made this connection ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Last week the National Academy of Sciences announced that "more than 9,000 Academies reports" are now available through Google Book Search, upon completion of "the first phase of a partnership with Google to digitize the library's collection of reports from 1863 to 1997." This sounds like good news, but it's ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
In a recent posting at O'Reilly Radar, Linda Stone discusses recent comments by Brewster Kahle and Robert Darnton on the Google Book Search Settlement. This is especially valuable for its talk about the orphan books problem, discussed by Kahle, as Stone reports, and in comments by Thomas Lord and Tim ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The slides and data from Jon Orwant's presentation on Google Book Search at TOC, that were not available when I wrote previously, have now been put up on the O'Reilly site. [these have been removed, see comment below] This is made up of 59 PDF slides, covering a range of ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Long Tail, PicsYes, Publishing, TOC, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Jon Orwant, from Google Book Search, made a presentation at the O'Reilly Tools Of Change (TOC) for Publishing Conference in New York last week, which I did not attend. Apparently Orwant presented some numeric data about the use of Google Books, but the data has yet to be spread to ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
When a link is clicked to a specific page in GBS Mobile, the page that always opens is the entry page for the book. There doesn't seem to be a way to link successfully to specific pages. I've tried this in several examples, and have had the same experience in ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
There's been a lot of buzz about the announcement last week of mobile access to Google Book Search public-domain books. I've been looking hard for nitty-gritty details of how it works, though, and haven't found much. The best is in comments by bowerbird on an announcement article on toc.oreilly.com. It's ...
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