Today’s New York Times Business section featured a brief item about Google’s plans to partner with publishers, providing some level of in-text search of their books:
“Google’s move coincides with a recent effort by Amazon.com to court Internet users looking for information by enabling them to search for words or phrases in its own database of the contents of thousands of books.”
[UPDATE: NYT cites Publisher’s Weekly’s online newsletter as a source, but I was unable to find it on their site this morning. An Anonymous Patron tracked it down for me. The article is entitled “The Amazoning of Google? Search Firm Goes the Other Way; Looks for Book
Content” by Steven Zeitchik. Odd that a search for “google amazon” on the PW site doesn’t produce this item.]
Publishers Weekly Link
Here is the link for The Amazoning of Google? by Steven Zeitchik. The article originally appeared in the October 27th PW Newsline.