Google Book Search Opens Pages to Readers

September 24th, 2008

Google took another step toward its vision of bringing more books online with the Monday launch of free tools that let retailers, publishers and Web site owners embed books from the Google Book Search index.As part of its latest push to digitize the world’s books, Google has partnered with booksellers, libraries, publishers and social book networks to enable preview functionality for their sites. That means consumers may see more sites with features like Amazon’s “Search Inside” function as they shop online for new reading material.

“We are also providing new ways for these sites to display full-text search results from Book Search, and even integrate with social features such as ratings, reviews, and readers’ book collections,” Alex Diaz, a product manager for Google Book Search, wrote on the company’s blog. “By providing tools that help sites connect readers with books in new and interesting ways, we hope publishers and authors will find even wider audiences for their works.”

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