It's the 15-year anniversary of Google Play Books, and you can earn 15x Play Points for a limited time to celebrate.

Debbie Elliott and New York Times Magazine ethicist Randy Cohen examine the dilemma that search engine Google poses with its Google Book Search tool. The powerful software can scan whole sections of ...

A database of published books that have been scanned by Google and made available in Google search results or from the Google Book site. Introduced in 2004 as the Google Print Library Project, it ...

Google has launched a bunch of new features to Google Books in an effort to promote interactivity between readers and the online books. 1. Embeddable previews of books: This new feature allows you to ...

While we can't say for sure what Gemini will do in Play Books, but it's very likely it will be used as a more powerful ...

The issues surrounding Google's Book Search settlement are among the most complex surrounding the company this year: what do authors need to know about their rights and responsibilities? Google has ...

Today I am going to discuss Google Books previously called Google Print and Google Book Search. Google Books was introduced in 2004 at Frankfurt Bookfair and Google’s Library Project, also now known ...

Google Play Books turns 15 this year, and it has published a blog post outlining many underrated features customers might not ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

With Google Books -- part of the suite of electronic music, literature and shows available on Google Play -- you have the option of reading a seemingly endless number of books on your e-reader, mobile ...

Today, federal judge Denny Chin rejected a copyright challenge Google's practices of scanning books into digital format and presenting snippets of those scans in search results because the practices ...

Google's massive book-scanning project that makes complete copies of books without an author's permission is perfectly legal under U.S. copyright law, a federal judge ruled today, deciding an ...