Ads
related to: google books- Books on Google Play
Find just the book for you on
Google Play. Browse now.
- Read John le Carré
Check out the brilliant spy novel
Agent Running in the Field.
- New Releases
Browse the latest titles from your
favorite authors on Google Play.
- Educated
Read Tara Westover's memoir on her
quest to learn. Now on Google Play.
- Mystery & Thrillers
Find out what's next in these
thrilling tales on Google Play.
- The Water Dancer
Join a young man's journey to
freedom. Download now.
- Books on Google Play
Search results
Results from the Go Local Guru Content Network
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
Google Play Books, formerly Google eBooks, is an ebook digital distribution service operated by Google, part of its Google Play product line. Users can purchase and download ebooks and audiobooks from Google Play, which offers over five million titles, with Google claiming it to be the "largest ebooks collection in the world".
Google Books users currently can view long previews of another two million books that are in copyright and in print, thanks to agreements between Google and tens of thousands of publishers that were separate from the legal settlement.
When the page number is a Roman numeral, commonly seen at the beginning of books, the URL looks like this for page xvii (Roman numeral 17) of the same book: https://books.google.com/books?id=kvpby7HtAe0C&pg=PR17. The &pg=PR17 indicates "page, Roman, 17", in contrast to the &pg=PA18, "page, Arabic, 18" the URL given earlier.
Google Books; HathiTrust; Internet Archive; LibriVox—free online audiobook library, with many texts used from Project Gutenberg; List of digital library projects; On-line Guitar Archive; Open Content Alliance; Project Runeberg, for books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. Runivers, for Russian historical documents
The Authors Guild, other author organizations, and individual authors claimed that the HathiTrust Digital Library had infringed their copyrights through its use of books scanned by Google. A federal court ruled against the plaintiffs in October 2012, finding that HathiTrust's use was permissible under fair use.
Ad
related to: google books