[WEB4LIB] Re: Google Print

[Breakall, Scott]

You won't see "Book results" unless a publisher has joined the Google
Print program and sent Google a copy of the book to be included.
Joining the program is free for the publisher -- presumably Google gets
money from the booksellers that Google links to.  Google scans in the
entire book, and then performing a normal Google search generates "Book
results" based on the search terms, and clicking on a "Book result" will
take the user to a page where he can view a few sample pages, and even
search the full text of the book.  Also, when users are browsing the
pages of a book on Google's site, Google will generate ads based on the
content of the current page, and if a user clicks on one of the links,
the publisher gets paid.

Roy has already provided a link to the Google Print FAQ below -- here is
the Google Print publisher page:
http://print.google.com/googleprint/about.html


(Of course, anyone could have found this information just by Googling
for it.)

~Scott~
Chesterfield County Public Library



-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:46 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Google Print


See <http://print.google.com/googleprint/about.html> and search on 
"Huckleberry Finn", taking a look at the first hit (with the icon of 
books beside it).
Roy

On Oct 6, 2004, at 8:28 AM, <george at library.caltech.edu> wrote:

> In news from the Frankfurt Book Fair
> <http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/06/technology/google_book.reut/>:
>
> [U]sers will see book excerpts alongside ordinary Google Web page
> search
> results. The book excerpts will carry a link to buy the book from a
> choice of online book retailers.
>
> I don't see anything at Google, yet.
>
> George S. Porter
> Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science California 
> Institute of Technology Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125-4300
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