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February 21, 2008
What gives Google Books?
In late 2003 Google launched a new service, Google Print, which promised digitizing millions of books that would be available to full text via the Internet. We all remember the controversy that arose around the intellectual property of the texts and the reactions of the European authorities to the danger that suffered European culture of being overshadowed by the United States on the website.
In these four years, the Google Books now appears to have weathered the stakes suffered, and has incorporated new possibilities: downloading books in PDF, search the text of books, appeared versions in different languages, including Spanish, the search libraries (in the Spanish version of the catalogue REBIUN) and retail sites such as Amazon books online, and so on. Among the most recent is the option of creating a collection of books individually, in the purest style of Library Thing, which can be added documents, comment, and label them puntuarlos; this makes it one of the services on the web social or Web 2.0, which calls for the participation of Internet users.
At present Google Books is a collection of digitized books that are obtained through agreements with publishers and libraries. There are therefore two programmes for these two groups: the first allows publishers and authors to promote and market their books through this platform, while the second is possible to access documents and Discontinued. Among the participating libraries Spanish, along with several other American and European are those of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the National Library of Catalonia.
---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.
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Published: February 21, 2008
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