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 Play is the official online store for Android devices. You can download various forms of media onto your Android ...

The U.S. Justice Department advised a federal judge Friday that a proposed legal settlement giving Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books threatens to thwart competition and ...

You can send someone Google Play credit by buying them a physical gift card or an e-gift card online.

After eight years of battling in court, Google has won the right to scan books and publish them online – for now. U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin issued a decision on Thursday in New York, saying that ...

Richard Sarnoff, chairman of the Association of American Publishers, speculated last week that the landmark Google Book Search settlement could create a duopoly in the electronic books market.

Google, which paints itself as a warrior in Internet regulatory and legal challenges, apparently prioritized self-interest by settling copyright infringement lawsuits over its book search engine.

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spring Design, developers of the dual screen multimedia Alex™ eReader, today announced they have entered into an agreement with Google that gives Alex users access to ...

Despite initial awe for Google's project to digitize and make library books searchable online, some publishers are now criticizing the plan, calling it a "broad ...

After a decade of court battles, Google's massive book-scanning project has finally been deemed legal. On Friday, a three-judge panel in the Second Circuit sided with the tech giant, declaring that ...

It was the most ambitious library project of our time—a plan to scan all of the world’s books and make them available to the public online. “We think that we can do it all inside of ten years,” ...

Scott Rosenberg is an editor at Backchannel. Sign up to get Backchannel's weekly newsletter. To answer such questions, you need Google Book Search, the tool that magically scours the texts of millions ...