Neowin News Feed for: Book

Giveaway: Pioneers of Digital

Brad Sams — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:33:38 +0000

We recently read through Mel Carson's Pioneers of Digital book and have a copy to give away to our readers. If you love success stories and are into digital content, this book is for you. Read more...

Book review: Atari: Business is Fun

Paul Ferson — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:53:34 +0000

Neowin glimpses into the Atari of the 1970s, a company markedly different to that which we know today. We try to discover just how fun business was as part of one of the main companies of the decade. Read more...

Encyclopaedia Britannica ditches print for pure digital

John Callaham — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:09:57 +0000

Encyclopaedia Britannica announced this week that it would no longer offer a print version of its encyclopedia after 244 years in order to concentrate on its online editions. Read more...

Review: Steve Jobs' official biography

Mike Brown — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:56:53 +0100

Walter Isaacson's hotly anticipated book has finally hit shelves. Although he authorised it, Steve Jobs never asked to read a word of his biography. Does it live up to the hype? Neowin takes a look. Read more...

Frankfurt Book Fair: e-book readers gaining a foothold.

Contributor — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:59:48 +0100

The e-book is on the rise. Last week everyone who cares about books went to the Frankfurt book fair. Three devices in particular seemed the most interesting. Here are some impressions, including snippets from two... Read more...

Google and Random House Move Closer on Book Search

Sagittarius — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:04:32 +0100

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Random House, the world's largest book publisher, is considering joining a book-search project run by search-engine giant Google, once considered an arch-enemy by the paper publishing industry. According to sources close to the matter, the... Read more...

Big Ten Joins Google Book Project

Slimy — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:50:40 +0100

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As part of Google Incorporated's book-scanning project , twelve major universities will digitize select collections in each of their libraries (up to 10 million volumes) with the goal to create a shared digital repository that... Read more...

Google Offers Book Search to Publishers

Amano — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:38:31 +0100

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Google is making its controversial engine available to publishers interested in putting it on their Web sites. This is the first time Google's Book Search service has been available outside of its main site in... Read more...

Google Book Search becomes more comprehensive

Slimy — Thu, 17 May 2007 21:39:45 +0100

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Google has upped the ante with an upgrade to Google Book Search that allows users to search digitized book results as well as records for millions of other books that still just exist in the... Read more...

Google launches book search for China

Slimy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:16:50 +0000

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Google has been working on the Chinese book search service since the middle of last year. On March 2, Google launched the latest addition to Google.cn: a trial Web site for testing a book search... Read more...

Microsoft To Release Book Search

Tom Warren — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:08:12 +0000

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Microsoft is releasing Live Search Books, its competitor to Google Book Search, in beta on Wednesday. The book search engine performs keyword searches for books that have been scanned as... Read more...

Google to Allow Free Book Downloads

Steven Parker — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:40:40 +0100

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Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain. Using Google's Book Search service, Web... Read more...

Google Print Renamed Google Book Search

stncttr908 — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:20:00 +0000

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Google has renamed its Google Print service to Google Book Search, according to Jen Grant, a Product Marketing Manager in a post on the company's official blog. The Google Print URL (print.google.com) now redirects... Read more...

MSN Search Announces MSN Book Search

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:43:23 +0100

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MSN Search today announced its intention to launch MSN® Book Search, which will support MSN Search's efforts to help people find exactly what they're looking for on the Web, including the content from books, academic... Read more...

Major Book Publishers Sue Google

configure — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:44:37 +0100

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Thanks oddcrap. Google Inc. on Wednesday was sued by a major publishing association for digitizing library books without the permissions of copyright holders, the second such suit filed against the search engine giant. ... Read more...

Yahoo Starts a Book Collection

stncttr908 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:31:33 +0100

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Yahoo, in conjunction with several universities and two European archives, says it plans to make books available online beginning later this year in a move similar to Google's "Google Print" service. Collectively the group... Read more...

World's First Self-Playing Audio Book

Timmah — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 06:54:41 +0100

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Pick it up off the shelf, take it to the checkout and listen to it - is Playaway paving the future for audiobooks? The 6 ounces of technology that make up this... Read more...

Marvel-ous deal for Mforma: multiyear pact with comic book

Dice — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:15:53 +0000

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Earlier today, Mforma and Marvel Enterprises announced the mobile entertainment industry's largest content licensing deal to date. The new strategic partnership between Mforma, a fast-growing mobile content creator based in Seattle, and Marvel, a multimedia... Read more...

Masters Of Doom Book Coming

Marcel Klum — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:14:53 +0000

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Random House will publish a book in early May titled "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture". The book, written by David Kushner, will concentrate on... Read more...

Halo in 2003 Guiness Book

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 23:01:43 +0000

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Thanks DJ^TuRKiYe for the heads up in BPN. If you've had the opportunity to glance through the 2003 Guiness Book of World Records, you may have noticed on page 177, a large... Read more...