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  2. Google Books - Wikipedia

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    Active. Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]

  3. Book scanning - Wikipedia

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    Book scanning. Book scanning or book digitization (also: magazine scanning or magazine digitization) is the process of converting physical books and magazines into digital media such as images, electronic text, or electronic books (e-books) by using an image scanner. [1] Large scale book scanning projects have made many books available online.

  4. BookScan - Wikipedia

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    BookScan. BookScan is a data provider for the book publishing industry that compiles point of sale data for book sales, owned by Circana in the United States and NIQ in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Poland. [1][2][3][4] In the United States, Nielsen sold BookScan to ...

  5. Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. Authors Guild v. Google 804 F.3d 202 (2nd Cir. 2015) was a copyright case heard in federal court for the Southern District of New York, and then the Second Circuit Court of Appeals between 2005 and 2015. It concerned fair use in copyright law and the transformation of printed copyrighted books into an online ...

  6. Live Search Books - Wikipedia

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    Live Search Books Publisher Program. Live Search Books was a search service for books launched in December 2006, part of Microsoft 's Live Search range of services. Microsoft was working with a number of libraries, including the British Library, to digitize books and make them searchable, and in the case of out-of-copyright books, available ...

  7. Internet Archive - Wikipedia

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    The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle. [1][2][4] It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and open Internet.

  8. Hachette v. Internet Archive - Wikipedia

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    Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive, No. 20-cv-4160 (JGK), 2023 WL 2623787 (S.D.N.Y. 2023), is a case in which the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York determined that the Internet Archive, a registered library, committed copyright infringement by scanning and lending complete copies of books through ...

  9. Digitization - Wikipedia

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    Internet Archive book scanner. Digitization[1] is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format. [2] The result is the representation of an object, image, sound, document, or signal (usually an analog signal) obtained by generating a series of numbers that describe a discrete set of points or samples. [3]