Entries tagged with “book scanning” from Tools of Change for Publishing
Google Taking Long View on Book Search
Mac Slocum
June 2, 2008
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With Microsoft abandoning Live Search Books, eWEEK turns the spotlight on Google Book Search:
... the smart strategy would be for Google to advance its effort from the "not-too-distant future" to the present. Google can pretty much corner the market at this point. Google was asked by eWEEK when it could expect to see some Book Search results, but the spokesperson declined to comment.
(Note: by "results," I'm assuming the article's author is talking about financial returns.)
Despite the short-term opportunity presented by Microsoft's departure, a quoted analyst in the eWEEK piece believes Google is taking a long-view approach to Book Search.
(Via Publishers Weekly.)
Microsoft Closing Live Search Books
Mac Slocum
May 23, 2008
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Microsoft is shutting down Live Search Books, which includes its book scanning initiative. From the Live Search official blog:
Based on our experience, we foresee that the best way for a search engine to make book content available will be by crawling content repositories created by book publishers and libraries. With our investments, the technology to create these repositories is now available at lower costs for those with the commercial interest or public mandate to digitize book content. We will continue to track the evolution of the industry and evaluate future opportunities.
Project equipment, resources and scanned books will be distributed to various stakeholders:
... we intend to provide publishers with digital copies of their scanned books. We are also removing our contractual restrictions placed on the digitized library content and making the scanning equipment available to our digitization partners and libraries to continue digitization programs.
(Update: 5/23/08, 2 p.m.): Brewster Kahle from the Internet Archive credits Microsoft for removing content restrictions and allowing organizations to keep the scanning equipment:
This is extremely important because it can allow those of us in the public sphere to leverage what they helped build. Keeping the public domain materials public domain is where we all wanted to be. Getting a books scanning process in place is also a major accomplishment. Thank you Microsoft.
Live Search Books, a competitor to Google Book Search, was launched in Dec. 2006.
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