Google to allow free downloads of books
A good news for book readers and book lovers. Google has begin letting users download and print free of charge classic novels and many other that are in the public domain. Using Google's book search, users can now download their favourite books in PDF format(the entire book) and can print them on paper. Google supports these service , as always, by serving text ads on the search results pages. This does not include books that are copyrighted. Google's Book Search service is the product of its Books Library Project, which is digitizing books from major libraries around the world in order to make them searchable online. Its partners include the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, the University of California and the New York Public Library. Google is also conducting a pilot project with the Library of Congress.
How to download books from Google?
If the books doesn't save,try again. It would save
Remember, you may not get all the books you like as copyrighted books are not available for free download.
For more on this news, we recommend reading this article.
For more on what books are available for download, visit the official Google blog
Author's comments
Though Google is by far the best and the most popular search engine, the same has acted as a doubel edged sword for them. People all over the world come to Google for search, just for search. Inspite of a lot of products introduced by Google, they could never match Yahoo in presenting the web users a compact view. More than 70% of the people who visit Google visit it exclusively for search. Inspite of products like Picasa and Google Earth, Google is still fighting it out to match Yahoo in web user experience and Microsoft in Desktop applications(I don't think Google could match Microsoft). Gmail turned out to be a success and looks good. With internet usage on the rise(in Asia and Africa), more and more people are searching for quality books. I think this is a good move from Google and I hope this could be a success. But Google should also look forward to copyrighted books, which has already put Google in a spot of bother.
How to download books from Google?
- Go to Google book search or click here
- Enter the name of the book you are searching for and select Full view books option.
- Select the book of your choice and then click Download.
- The entire contents of the book would show up. Click Save a Copy and select the location to save the book.
- Wait for some time for the book to download to your computer. Enjoy reading.
If the books doesn't save,try again. It would save
Remember, you may not get all the books you like as copyrighted books are not available for free download.
For more on this news, we recommend reading this article.
For more on what books are available for download, visit the official Google blog
Author's comments
Though Google is by far the best and the most popular search engine, the same has acted as a doubel edged sword for them. People all over the world come to Google for search, just for search. Inspite of a lot of products introduced by Google, they could never match Yahoo in presenting the web users a compact view. More than 70% of the people who visit Google visit it exclusively for search. Inspite of products like Picasa and Google Earth, Google is still fighting it out to match Yahoo in web user experience and Microsoft in Desktop applications(I don't think Google could match Microsoft). Gmail turned out to be a success and looks good. With internet usage on the rise(in Asia and Africa), more and more people are searching for quality books. I think this is a good move from Google and I hope this could be a success. But Google should also look forward to copyrighted books, which has already put Google in a spot of bother.
posted by xlmaster at 9:53 PM
1 Comments:
When I download books all I can see is the first page with google's terms of use or whatever it is and then blank pages (if there are 500 pages in the book I see 500 blank pages).
I think all I'm seeing is the watermark and can't see the text underneath it.
I use OS X 10.3 w/ Preview.
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