The Google Play website gives you instant access to thousands of books including business, computer programming and financial books in the eBook format. Ebooks can be read online or on a Google Books ...

FRANKFURT – Google is launching a new service for booksellers next year called Google Editions, which will let readers buy books and read them anywhere on gadgets ranging from cell phones to possibly ...

Google says it will launch Google Editions, its anticipated universal format e-book store, by the end of 2010. Google Editions is looking to upset the traditional (if you can call it that) e-book ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

The Book Search settlement, announced in October, followed a three-year battle over Google’s right to display copyrighted books on its Web site. The Authors Guild and the Association of American ...

Looking for a solid e-reader app for your Android device? The newest version of Google Play Books is an awesome option. The thing is, it's still missing one key feature. Jaymar Cabebe Former Associate ...

After eight years of battling in court, Google has won the right to scan books and publish them online – for now. U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin issued a decision on Thursday in New York, saying that ...

Google’s plan to digitize some of the world’s largest library collections and make them searchable online has proven controversial. The universities of Michigan, Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford have all ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spring Design, developers of the dual screen multimedia Alex™ eReader, today announced they have entered into an agreement with Google that gives Alex users access to ...

Google has spent years scanning books, recreating the world's leading libraries as digital files we can read and search on PCs and smartphones. The project has faced a fair amount of opposition -- ...

Twelve years after Google shocked the book industry by announcing plans to copy millions of library books into a new online directory, the legal battle over the project has finally ended. The Supreme ...