Google plans to add an additional 250,000 titles to its Google Books online service by digitizing up to 40 million pages of content from the London-based British Library collection. Google's ...

Google’s plan to digitize the world’s books into a combination research library and bookstore started in 2002 when it first began scanning books without permission from authors. The Google Books ...

It was the most ambitious library project of our time—a plan to scan all of the world’s books and make them available to the public online. “We think that we can do it all inside of ten years,” ...

The initiative could offer unprecedented access to an enormous collection of human knowledge, but it has created controversy over who stands to profit from it. A truck belonging to Google pulls up at ...

How the tech giant has fared in its major legal battles across the U.S. and Europe so far. By Nico Grant The absence of stringent regulation has allowed the search giant to dominate the powerful ...

Twelve years after Google shocked the book industry by announcing plans to copy millions of library books into a new online directory, the legal battle over the project has finally ended. The Supreme ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court turned away a challenge Monday to Google’s online book library from authors who complained that the project makes it harder for them to market their work. The justices ...