Ohio University: Ohio University Libraries to join Google Books Library Project. “The Google Books Library Project, which has significantly contributed to the digital corpus of 40 million books in over 500 languages, identified several hundred thousand books held by Ohio University Libraries that are not yet in their collection.”

Is there a reason for @bsbmuenchen not sharing the #GoogleBooks URLs for works in their collections and scanned by Google through #ZDB and other aggregators?

See for example the Arabic magazine التوفيق from Cairo (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124970787):

- ZDB: https://zdb-katalog.de/title.xhtml?idn=990708284&view=brief#DE-12
- Scans on Google Books: https://www.google.de/books/edition/at_Tauf%C4%ABq/Nl_dtypmdE4C

@awinkler, do you happen to have any insights in this matter?

irrregular reminder that you can ask google to unlock books that are in the public domain but not openly available via the feedback form. It usually takes them one or two days to review the request.

#googlebooks

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/google-disables-book-search-preview-pages-remain-xcxwbn/

Google Disables Search for Book Previews

#Google #GoogleSearch #GoogleBooks #Reddit #BigTech #SearchEngines #Publishing

Fugg. Google Books has been redesigned, the snippets are so small now that they are unreadable. Even the cover pages of books are tiny now. Classic Google Books is still available, but will be turned off.

#Google #GoogleBooks

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From 04–09 September, get your copy at a special price on Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Books & Barnes & Noble.

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#theuntouchable #gjkrefft #nietykalna #NextChapterPub #BookSale #BookPromo #Books #SciFi #AmReading #BookRecommendation #Amazon #AppleBooks #Kobo #GoogleBooks #BarnesandNoble #writersofmastodon

#Anthropic apparently claimed «it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits».
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

Did that actually happen? I thought not. The registry was part of the proposed settlements which were rejected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc.#District_trial

#GoogleBooks #copyright #FairUse