With Google’s help, it is becoming increasingly easier for students to ditch their paperbacks and hardcover textbooks for e-readers and iPads. The option partly stems from the University’s involvement ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, today became the first UC campus to contribute a shipment of books from its library for the Google Books Library Project. The massive project was launched in ...

In a move with major significance for the worlds of academic research and publishing, the University of California is in talks to join Google’s controversial project to digitize great libraries and ...

In a deal that adds credibility to Google’s controversial library project, the search giant on Wednesday said the University of California (UC) has agreed to allow the company to digitize and make ...

The University of California has released a copy of its contract with Google to have the search engine giant digitize millions of books from the university’s libraries. The document shines a light on ...

The Google Books Library Project may have won the support of prominent libraries in the United States and the United Kingdom, but it is not likely to make a splash in Asia--at least, not yet. ZDNet ...

Any day now, trucks will begin arriving weekdays at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin to begin hauling away thousands of books. The books will be ferried to undisclosed locations to be scanned ...

If Google digitizes the world’s books, how will it keep track of what you read? That’s one of the unanswered questions that librarians and privacy experts are grappling with as Google attempts to ...

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The Authors Guild has sued five universities and a library partnership organization alleging copyright infringement over their use of certain digitized copies of books made by Google in its Books ...

(Reuters) - Google Inc notched a legal victory in its bid to create the world's largest digital books library, winning the reversal of a court order that had allowed authors challenging the project to ...