LibreDigital: New Book Search Service
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: LibreDigital: New Book Search Service
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:34:45 -0400
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From: TVC Alert Research News
The Virtual Chase
http://www.virtualchase.com
22 August 2006
LibreDigital: New Book Search Service
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<http://googlewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/08/22/12595.aspx>
<http://tinyurl.com/hhpae>
(22 Aug) Publisher HarperCollins and Austin, Texas-based LibreDigital
announced a service called LibreDigital Warehouse that will enable
delivery of searchable book content from a Web site. While touted as a
threat to Google's book project, it appears to be more competitive with
Amazon's Search Inside This Book feature.
"[T]he service will allow users to search the entire content of a book and
preview a percentage of its text and illustrations." It also will allow
publishers to customize the viewable pages in a book as well as the percent
of the whole book that is viewable.
Readers, please correct me if I am wrong. But I believe Google's intent
is to provide a snippet of keywords-in-context along with bibliographic
and library location information, which differs greatly from the service
described in the press release and that provided by Amazon.com.