It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious ...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google plan to provide access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical materials from the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society ...

The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press has partnered with the Google Books Library Project, a global initiative comprising leading research libraries working to make books and printed ...

Google was once working on a project to scan almost all books ever published and make out-of-copyright books accessible with one click. However, the project was blocked by legal barriers, and the ...

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,” ...

You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow ...