Google Play Books is turning 15 this weekend following its inception in 2010 and rebrand in 2012. To celebrate, Google is giving away 15x Play Points on Play Books purchases through December 7. That’s ...

Google, which paints itself as a warrior in Internet regulatory and legal challenges, apparently prioritized self-interest by settling copyright infringement lawsuits over its book search engine.

Three groups representing hundreds of libraries lodged a long series of concerns about a proposed settlement of lawsuits over Google Book Search on Monday–but refrained from objecting overall.

Both Google Play Books and Amazon Kindle are very popular among readers. But when it comes to choosing one of them, it can be tricky to make the selection. So, we’ve created this Google Play Books vs ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

Chromebooks 2.0, these are not. With Googlebooks, Google blends premium designs, Android phone integration, and Gemini AI to create a new laptop class. Here's what you need to know about the systems.

Google Book Search now calls out the placement of search terms more clearly in books and magazines.Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET All the talk about Google’s Book Search lately has focused more on the ...

As it has done with its antitrust road show, Google is reaching out to explain how its plan to make books searchable and sellable online will benefit all concerned. On Thursday evening at the Computer ...

Google’s plan to digitize some of the world’s largest library collections and make them searchable online has proven controversial. The universities of Michigan, Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford have all ...

Google Books has made an enormous number of books available online for reference, serving as an enormous digital library for web browsers. The collection is a combination of free public domain books ...