Sounds like a good idea to me. Perhaps somebody should send google an email,
and see what their requirements are for including a book in the search
database? It would be a great help to our project.
--Andrew Whitworth
From: "Piotr \"Derbeth\" Kubowicz"
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Subject: [Textbook-l] Google Book Search
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:49:22 +0200
Today I found news about a new Google project - Google Book Search. This
service, available at
http://books.google.com/, allows users to search for
books and browse some of them online. In most cases, only parts of books
are available and the whole material is copyrighted. Google Book Search
also offers long description of every book, links to online stores where
the book is available, possibility to search words in a single books and
more features.
Currently I have not seen any books from Wikibooks there. I find this
project as a real chance for Wikibooks to promote itself and its content;
we should add our PDF versions there if it is possible. Google says it does
not take any money for adding new books to its search engine, but I am not
sure if they require ISBN number for each book.
What is your opinion on this project?
--
Piotr 'Derbeth' Kubowicz
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