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Google’s Helping The British Library Digitise 250,000 Books

250,000 of the British Library’s out-of-copyright books from 1700 to 1870 will be digitised by Google, both sides confirmed today. This means the whole world will get access to important tomes, pamphlets and periodicals spanning some 40 million pages, via Google Books and the British Library’s website.

May 26, 2011
Cars

A Man Built A Car From 1906 Using Google Books

That beautiful car is a brand new 1906 Oldsmobile Model B Runabout. Yep, Bob Ferry used Google Books to find old magazines that described mechanics, showed pictures and gave descriptions of the Oldsmobile so he could build it a 100 years later.

March 23, 2011
News

Google’s $US125m Settlement Over Digitised Books Rejected

A federal judge has ruled against Google’s $US125 million proposal to settle with publishers and authors whose out-of-print books Google digitised without permission. The judge feels the settlement is too favourable towards Google. Rough. [NY Times via Engadget]

January 7, 2010
Gadgets

Samsung Introduces Stylus-Enabled Ebook Readers

The Samsung E6 and E101 are the first ebook reader to let you write on the display. They’ve partnered with Google Books, and will have 6-inch and 10-inch offerings.

December 30, 2009
Online

Exclusive! First Photos Of Heaven Taken With Mobile Phone!

A Weekly World News reader and accident victim used his mobile phone to “record incredible views of the other side.” It may be all made in Photoshop, though. I don’t know. But wait, there’s also a full reportage of hell too.

December 9, 2009
Online

French President Implies Google Books Will Strip Their Heritage

While French President Sarkozy didn’t namecheck Google directly, he more than alluded to them, claiming that their aim of scanning out of copyright books and putting them online will damage France’s own book digitisation plan.

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