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Google Opens Wide

Google announced today a settlement with the AAP and Authors Guild which will change the way books are accessed and read. Excerpted from the Google Book Search site:

Accessing books

This agreement will create new options for reading entire books (which is, after all, what books are there for).

  • Online access
    Once this agreement has been approved, you'll be able to purchase full online access to millions of books. This means you can read an entire book from any Internet-connected computer, simply by logging in to your Book Search account, and it will remain on your electronic bookshelf, so you can come back and access it whenever you want in the future.


  • Library and university access
    We'll also be offering libraries, universities and other organizations the ability to purchase institutional subscriptions, which will give users access to the complete text of millions of titles while compensating authors and publishers for the service. Students and researchers will have access to an electronic library that combines the collections from many of the top universities across the country. Public and university libraries in the U.S. will also be able to offer terminals where readers can access the full text of millions of out-of-print books for free.


  • Buying or borrowing actual books
    Finally, if the book you want is available in a bookstore or nearby library, we'll continue to point you to those resources, as we've always done.

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