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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — Google has been busy. The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world’s out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive. It could all be just a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 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 ...

You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow ...

NEW YORK -- Saying Google Inc. had overstretched, a federal judge today rejected a deal between the giant search engine and lawyers for authors and publishers that would have let the company make ...