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Ingram moves quickly to fill Microsoft gap
Ingram Digital has offered publishers who participated in the now defunct Microsoft Live Search Books scheme an opportunity to move to its Search and Discover platform free of charge. Ingram inte...
Has Microsoft ceded the digital book to Google?
IT industry pundit Andrew Orlowski argues that by abandoning Live Book Search Microsoft has 'effectively handed the future of the digital book to arch-rival Google.'
Microsoft shuts down book search
Microsoft has announced it is ending its book search programs Live Search Books and Live Search Academic and that ‘both sites will be taken down next week.' While the company will continue...
Libraries rebuff Google and Microsoft
A number of major research libraries in the Us have shunned offers from Google and Microsoft to help digitise their collections, opting instead to join the Open Content Alliance.
Microsoft signs digitisation deal with Ingram
Microsoft has chosen Ingram as a partner to scan and store the digital files required as it Live Search Books project grows to include in-copyright works.
Microsoft adds copyright titles to book search function; Google expands search offering
Microsoft has announced that it has added copyrighted material to its Live Search Books function, which had previously included only public domain and out-of-copyright material. While the search ...
Reading will go 'completely online': Bill Gates
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports on the latest predictions from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who had this to say about the future of reading at a recent Microsoft summit: 'Reading is goin...
Google Book Search 'systematically violates copyright,' says lawyer
Google Book Search 'systematically violates copyright,' says Thomas Rubin, Microsoft's associate general counsel for copyright, trademark and trade secrets, in a speech to be delivered to the Associat...
Microsoft's Live Search Books is coming to the Antipodes--eventually
Further to last week's story about the partnership between Global Books in Print (GBiP) and Microsoft's Live Search Books program, Microsoft has provided more details on how Live Search Books operates...
Global Books in Print named as database for Microsoft book search project
Bowker's Global Books in Print (GBiP) bibliographic database has been selected by Microsoft as the preferred data source for the software giant's Live Search Books service. Live Search Books is M...
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