CNET has a positive review of a new reader for Google Books that is not from Google. Called GooReader, the product is described as “is a desktop application that allows you to read Google Books online and offline, add Bookmarks,…
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Copyright Office Issues Report On Mass Digitization
04
Nov
Anyone who may have read my post on BNA content being available through Google News may have clicked on the link I gave to the specific BNA content. If so, the story Copyright Office Report Outlines Issues Surrounding Mass Digitization…
Some BNA Content Showing Up in Google News
02
Nov
Maybe I’ve been missing something all these years with BNA. I was surprised to see some BNA news reports showing up in Google News. I was even more surprised when I discovered that the referenced text was completely accessible without…
Google Books Comes To The UK
07
Oct
Cheap tablets from competitors may have had one effect on Google. Amazon has released the Kindle Fire as a convenient front end to its massive store with expectations that the Fire will be sold globally. Google Books was never available…
Dead Sea Scrolls Now Online With Help From Google
26
Sep
Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online, with more coming. The Israel Museum partnered with Google to digitize the manuscripts and make them available to anyone with a web connection. The scrolls are so fragile that direct…
Google’s Eric Schmidt Appears Before The Senate Judiciary Committee
22
Sep
Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. The witness testimony is available in prepared remarks and an archived webcast. The hearing was titled “The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?” Other witnesses included Jeff…
Google+ Goes Live To Everyone
20
Sep
Google’s new attempt at a social network is now open to the general Google user community, and from Google’s perspective, anyone who would like to join that community. The service started some three months ago and attracted interest from the…
Google Books Case Gearing Up For Trial As Settlement Talks Still Going On
16
Sep
There are some developments in the Google Book Settlement talks. Search Engine Land is reporting from cited sources that Judge Chin is setting up pretrial steps with the idea that the case could go to trial sometime in mid-2012. However,…
Law Grad Jobs, The ABA, And U.S. News
01
Sep
Two stories on the law student job market caught my eye today. One is from the Associated Press via Google News. It’s called Law Schools Lure Fewer Students As Jobs Dry Up. It relates how law schools in Missouri are…
