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Book lovers and books specialists are vindicated in this examination of how Google Books handles Tristam Shandy. It's not a happy story for Google Books - technology bungles the job and there is no human on site to correct the problem.
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Electronic searching of the full-text of books goes beyond the index and table of contents to search for any and all text in one book or in many. A phrase, number, word, or any string of characters can be searched. A9 same book database as Amazon, Google Book Search, and Live Search Books can all Search Inside The Book, or search inside many books at once. The book search sites listed in this paper are available free of charge, with the exception of "Two Proprietary Book Search Products below."
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Some may think that this will push people away from purchasing books in printed form. But Jens Redmer, the director of Google Book Search in Europe, thinks just the opposite. "He did not believe taking books online would mean the end of the printed world but it would give readers more options when it came to buying." This is a point that can go either way, people could use the electronic format to view a sample of the book and then decided that that is something that they would want to purchase, or many will just use the free copy and not purchase the hard copy.
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Scott Boren has a great look at electronic searching of the full-text of books. He covers Several Book Search Web Sites, Text Archives for older materials, Proprietary Book Search sites, some Smaller Collections, Google Book Search, some Emerging Projects, and some sites for Further Reading.
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Google wants to ensure only small excerpts from the copyrighted material appear online — snippets that the company believes fall under “fair use” protections of U.S. law. In contrast, the Open Content Alliance won't scan copyrighted content unless it receives the permission of the copyright owner. Most of the roughly 100,000 books that the alliance has scanned so far are works whose copyrights have expired."
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