Goggle Books Goes German

More international news from the pages of CeBIT as Google finds its first German partner for its controversial Google Book Search project.

The Bavarian State library will, in the near future be digitising about half a million royalty-free works from the library’s historical and special collections sections. Besides German-language works the Bavarian collection also contains royalty-free works written in French, Spanish, Latin, Italian, and English.

Google’s book project has two parts: On the one hand publishing houses give the search engine operator books, with the intention of having these digitized and excerpts from them made readable online.
For the other part of its project Google has picked libraries as partners. Before it turned to the Bavarian State Library these already included the libraries of Oxford University, Harvard University, the University Complutense in Madrid and the library of Barcelona to name a few.

“If publishing houses or authors do not want their books to be digitized, they can tell Google and Google will, of course, exclude them from its project,” the company declared.

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