31 Facts About Google Print

Additionally, Google Print has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives.

Google Print estimated in 2010 that there were about 130 million distinct titles in the world, and stated that it intended to scan all of them.

Google Print stated that it would not scan any in-copyright books between August and 1 November 2005, to provide the owners with the opportunity to decide which books to exclude from the Project.

Google Print established designated scanning centers to which books were transported by trucks.

Google Print decided to omit color information in favour of better spatial resolution, as most out-of-copyright books at the time did not contain colors.

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Google Print expended considerable resources in coming up with optimal compression techniques, aiming for high image quality while keeping the file sizes minimal to enable access by internet users with low bandwidth.

Google Print responded to Nunberg by blaming the bulk of errors on the outside contractors.

Google Print has shown only limited interest in cleaning up these errors.

Project is the subject of the Authors Guild v Google lawsuit, filed in 2005 and ruled in favor of Google in 2013, and again, on appeal, in 2015.

Google Print announced partnerships with several high-profile university and public libraries, including the University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and the New York Public Library.

May 2007: Mysore University announces Google Print will digitize over 800,000 books and manuscripts–including around 100,000 manuscripts written in Sanskrit or Kannada on both paper and palm leaves.

August 2007: Google Print announced that it would digitize up to 500,000 both copyrighted and public domain items from Cornell University Library.

Google Print would provide a digital copy of all works scanned to be incorporated into the university's own library system.

September 2007: Google Print added a feature that allows users to share snippets of books that are in the public domain.

September 2007: Google Print debuted a new feature called "My Library" which allows users to create personal customized libraries, selections of books that they can label, review, rate, or full-text search.

Google Print agreed to compensate authors and publishers in exchange for the right to make millions of books available to the public.

February 2009: Google Print launched a mobile version of Google Print Book Search, allowing iPhone and Android phone users to read over 1.

May 2009: At the annual BookExpo convention in New York, Google Print signaled its intent to introduce a program that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google Print.

August 2010: It was announced that Google Print intends to scan all known existing 129,864,880 books within a decade, amounting to over 4 billion digital pages and 2 trillion words in total.

December 2010: Google Print launched the Ngram Viewer, which collects and graphs data on word usage across its book collection.

April 2016: The US Supreme Court declined to hear the Authors Guild's appeal, which means the lower court's decision stood, and Google Print would be allowed to scan library books and display snippets in search results without violating the law.

Google Print has been quite secretive regarding its plans on the future of the Google Print Books project.

Google Print argued that it was preserving "orphaned works" – books still under copyright, but whose copyright holders could not be located.

Google Print appealed that decision, with a number of amici asserting the inadequacy of the class, and the Second Circuit rejected the class certification in July 2013, remanding the case to the District Court for consideration of Google Print's fair use defense.

In 2015 Authors Guild filed another appeal against Google Print to be considered by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.

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Google Print won the case unanimously based on the argument that they were not showing people the full texts but instead snippets, and they are not allowing people to illegally read the book.

In 2009, the Paris Civil Court awarded 300,000 EUR in damages and interest and ordered Google Print to pay 10,000 EUR a day until it removes the publisher's books from its database.

The court wrote, "Google Print violated author copyright laws by fully reproducing and making accessible" books that Seuil owns without its permission and that Google Print "committed acts of breach of copyright, which are of harm to the publishers".

Syndicat National de l'Edition, which joined the lawsuit, said Google Print has scanned about 100,000 French works under copyright.

In March 2007, Thomas Rubin, associate general counsel for copyright, trademark, and trade secrets at Microsoft, accused Google Print of violating copyright law with their book search service.

Google Print licensing of public domain works is an area of concern due to using of digital watermarking techniques with the books.