The beta version of Google Print went live in May 2005, after two
earlier steps. In October 2004, Google launched the first part of
Google Print as a project aimed at publishers, for internet users to be
able to see excerpts from their books and order them online. In
December 2004, Google launched the second part of Google Print as a
project intended for libraries, to build up a digital library of 15
million books by digitizing the collections of main partner libraries,
beginning with the universities of Michigan (7 million books), Harvard,
Stanford and Oxford, and the New York Public Library. The planned cost
in 2004 was an average of US $10 per book, and a total budget of $150
to $200 million for ten years. In August 2005, Google Print was stopped
until further notice because of lawsuits filed by associations of
authors and publishers for copyright infringement.
August 2006 > Google Books, the worldwide Google program for books
The program resumed in August 2006 under the new name of Google Books.
Google Books has provided the full text of public domain books, and has
offered excerpts for copyrighted books. As of December 2008, Google had
24 library partners, including a Swiss one (University Library of
Lausanne), a French one (Lyon Municipal Library), a Belgian one (Ghent
University Library), a German one (Bavarian State Library), two Spanish
ones (National Library of Catalonia and University Complutense of
Madrid), and a Japanese one (Keio University Library). The U.S. partner
libraries were, by alphabetical order: Columbia University, Committee
on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), Cornell University Library, Harvard
University, New York Public Library, Oxford University, Princeton
University, Stanford University, University of California, University
of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, University of Virginia, and
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
August 2006 > The Open Content Alliance, a universal public digital
library
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