Google Book Search Adds Library Links
am 18.05.2007 von Handakte WebLAWgGoogle yesterday announced that it has expanded coverage of its Google Book Search product. Now in addition to searching books that you can preview in whole or in part, you may also find books whose contents are not yet available online. For these books - labeled “no preview available,” clicking on the title produces a product summary page where you might read a synopsis of the book. You …
LibraryThing
Transblawg / Isabella links to LibraryThing, an online book catalogue service, free for the first 200 books, $10 thereafter. I would find this useful so when I wanted to recommend a book to someone. The service doesn’t look quite like a proper...…
Books on legal English - general/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - allgemein
Transblawg / I wrote a whole screen on how you should choose a book as carefully as you choose your toothpaste, but I suspect people want concrete advice. That follows in a later entry. Here's the general waffle: Books to learn legal English /Bücher zu…
Finding Books Online or In-Print
Handakte WebLAWg / One of the best kept secrets of the online world is that books still have relevance in research. Searchers generally believe the information they seek is, or ought to be, available on the Web - easy to find and free. If they think about books at all,…
Google Doesn’t Wait for EU Governments
Law & Justice / Google has launched its books scan engine Google Print in eight European countries (local-language sites): Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain. Google Print enables users to look for scanned books from lib…
Microsoft Goes Google
Law & Justice / Microsoft announced that it will digitise about 100.000 books in collaboration with the British Library. Unlike Google Print, Microsoft says to limit itself to out-of-copyright books, thereby trying to avoid a legal minefield such as Google is conf…
Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek kooperiert mit Google
Streitsache / Blog / Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek hat sich Googles Bibliotheksprojekt angeschlossen. Im Rahmen dieser Kooperation wird Google alle Bücher aus dem Bibliotheksbestand digitalisieren, die nicht mehr dem Urheberschutz unterliegen, und in die Google Buchsu…
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative...
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Lesson 1: Let me start with book publishing. More than 100,000 books are published each year, with several million books in print, yet fewer than 10,000 of those new books have any significant sales, and only a hundred thousand or so of all the book…
Books on legal English footnote/Bücher über Rechtsenglisch Nachtrag
Transblawg / Of course I remembered more books. I will use this current entry for anything else that occurs to me, so come and check it again in future. First, there are books on legal English by Peter Tiersma. The one I know is called Legal Language. It's a…
Books for translators / Englische Bücher für Übersetzer
Transblawg / Multilingual Matters publish books and journals for translators and interpreters. They have addresses in Britain and the USA, or you can order from their website at a 20% discount. I wasn’t aware of them before, but they have some authors I…
Electronic Law Books: Will You Read Them?
Law & Justice / Its a book, but not as we know it, reader by Richard Susskind: Will we need law books in the future? The question is provoked by the arrival of Sony’s new digital book, Reader. It is lightweight, the size of a DVD box, with a paper-like displa…
Google erklärt googlen
MarkenBlog / Usage: ‘Google’ as noun referring to, well, us. Example: “I just love Google, they’re soooo cute and cuddly and adorable and awesome!” Our lawyers say: Good. Very, very good. There’s no question here that you̵…
On the art of not reading / Die Kunst des Nichtlesens
Transblawg / I haven't got the TLS for this week yet, but one article is online: a review by Adrian Tarhourdin of a book by a French professor of literature and psychoanalyst on how to talk about books one has not read: Pierre Bayard Comment parler des livre…
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