http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-34351 2010 Internet, SEO and Technology Predictions | 2010 Predictions | Blind Five Year Old Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:25:02 +0000 http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-34351 [...] the settlement brouhaha was the warm up act. Look for Google to launch an iTunes like store (aka gBooks) that will be the latest in the least talked about war on the Internet: Google vs. [...] […] the settlement brouhaha was the warm up act. Look for Google to launch an iTunes like store (aka gBooks) that will be the latest in the least talked about war on the Internet: Google vs. […]

]]> http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-17616 Veronica Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:56:21 +0000 http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-17616 Do you think that college students like myself will be able to just read books on their laptops? That way I wouldn't need to buy a kindle to stop from lugging all my textbooks around. Is it a library or some sort of subcription type thing or is it a per-book price? Do you think that college students like myself will be able to just read books on their laptops? That way I wouldn’t need to buy a kindle to stop from lugging all my textbooks around. Is it a library or some sort of subcription type thing or is it a per-book price?

]]> http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-17239 On Demand Digital Books | Used Books Blog Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:02:42 +0000 http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-17239 [...] I’m happy to see more momentum behind the digitization of books. I fully believe Google, or gBooks as I’ve come to call it, has the inside track on this business, and by a wide margin, over [...] […] I’m happy to see more momentum behind the digitization of books. I fully believe Google, or gBooks as I’ve come to call it, has the inside track on this business, and by a wide margin, over […]

]]> http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-17062 Google Books vs Amazon Kindle | Used Books Blog Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:51:14 +0000 http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-17062 [...] month I wrote about the future of gBooks which is contingent on the blessing of the settlement agreement with the Authors Guild and [...] […] month I wrote about the future of gBooks which is contingent on the blessing of the settlement agreement with the Authors Guild and […]

]]> http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-16707 Monica Willyard Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:31:19 +0000 http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/gbooks/#comment-16707 I'm praying like crazy that you're write about Google's book project. I am blind and can only read books if they are scanned into a computer. The drm on the Kindle makes it impossible for speech to read books from that device. That was such a disappointment to me. Right now, I use a nonprofit service called Bookshare.org that scans books for people who are blind or who have a print reading disability. It's legal to do this due to an exemption for people like me in the copyright law. Still, because Bookshare depends on volunteers to scan books, it's growing more slowly than what Google could do. We have around 43,000 books compared to the millions Google can do. Also, since many of Bookshare's volunteers are people like me who are blind, we're not able to process things like cookbooks and books with charts very well. Google could open up a whole new world to us while offering convenience to all people who want to read digitally. There are lots of older out of print books worth reading, and I think publishers would open up to Google including more recent books when they start seeing how much money is actually on the table. I’m praying like crazy that you’re write about Google’s book project. I am blind and can only read books if they are scanned into a computer. The drm on the Kindle makes it impossible for speech to read books from that device. That was such a disappointment to me. Right now, I use a nonprofit service called Bookshare.org that scans books for people who are blind or who have a print reading disability. It’s legal to do this due to an exemption for people like me in the copyright law. Still, because Bookshare depends on volunteers to scan books, it’s growing more slowly than what Google could do. We have around 43,000 books compared to the millions Google can do. Also, since many of Bookshare’s volunteers are people like me who are blind, we’re not able to process things like cookbooks and books with charts very well. Google could open up a whole new world to us while offering convenience to all people who want to read digitally. There are lots of older out of print books worth reading, and I think publishers would open up to Google including more recent books when they start seeing how much money is actually on the table.

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