The issues in the convoluted Google Book case are so complex and involve so many parties -- publishers, libraries, states, foreign governments, academics, writers, readers, and the U.S. Justice ...

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 ...

Why Hollywood should care about the Google book settlement. We wonder if Hollywood lawyers should be paying more attention to the fate of a controversial settlement between Google, book publishers ...

Google Book Search now calls out the placement of search terms more clearly in books and magazines. Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET. All the talk about Google's Book Search lately has focused more ...

Google Book Tool Tracks Cultural Change With Words A searchable database of more than 500 billion words from millions of books published over the past four centuries is now online. Researchers say ...

Appeals Court Rules Google Book Scanning Project is Fair Use. The 2nd Circuit writes the latest chapter in a decade-old fight that attracted the interest of the MPAA and practically every labor ...

Continuing a welcome trend of mashing together various parts of its empire, Google has added maps to Google Book Search. Currently the feature is far from universal, but in those places where it ...

The Google Book Search Blog announced a neat new feature that allows you to peek into the book via what is known as a cloud tag. The cloud tag shows you the most common terms and phrases used in ...

Browsing and searching for books at Google Book Search becomes even more better with the introduction of a few nifty features aimed at organizing and classifying the millions of books at Google ...