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Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
Google Play Books, formerly Google eBooks, is an ebook digital distribution service operated by Google, part of its Google Play product line. Users can purchase and download ebooks and audiobooks from Google Play , which offers over five million titles, with Google claiming it to be the "largest ebooks collection in the world".
In August 2003, Project Gutenberg created a CD containing approximately 600 of the "best" e-books from the collection. The CD is available for download as an ISO image. When users are unable to download the CD, they can request to have a copy sent to them, free of charge. In December 2003, a DVD was created containing nearly 10,000 items. At ...
Google announces plans to digitize the holdings of several major libraries, [91] as part of what would later be called the Google Books Library Project. 2005. Amazon buys Mobipocket, the creator of the mobi e-book file format and e-reader software. [92] Google is sued for copyright infringement by the Authors Guild for scanning books still in ...
Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010. Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
Force of habit and the network effect—the more Google Books links we have, the more we will have. Problems are hidden. Most users are unaware of these issues. In-line search-term highlighting is very nice. For public domain books, Google Books sometimes provides cleaner and smaller PDFs than other providers. Google Books search inside a book ...
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FictionBook is an open XML-based e-book format which originated and gained popularity in Russia. [1] FictionBook files have the .fb2 or .fb3 filename extension, regarding to their version. All FB2/FB3 capable readers also support ZIP-compressed FictionBook files (.fb2.zip or .fbz). FictionBook2 and FictionBook3 differ in two respects: FB2 ...