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Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing – February 14, 2006
"It's clear that publishers will benefit from the increased visibility of their works: the more people hear of a book, the more copies of that book will sell. Putting books into search-results increases the number of people who'll hear of them."

Triangulation 1: Google [Book Search] (audio file)
Leo Laporte, This Week in Tech – December 5, 2005
"On this episode, Lawrence Lessig, John C. Dvorak, and I discuss the furor over Google [Book Search] - Google's attempt to create a search service for books."

Ingram: Let Google Scan (fee access)
The Globe and Mail – November 1, 2005
"What is the biggest single problem confronting a new or non-blockbuster author? Finding an audience...What better way could there be of connecting authors with interested readers than by having their books be part of a giant searchable archive...? We're talking about a company providing a kind of digital card catalogue for every book that has ever been published. It could be the best thing that ever happened to some authors and their works."

Google Helps Protect Fair Use of Books
The Progress Report, originally in eWeek magazine – November 2005
"We do not see how Google's efforts violate the fair-use principle. It seems that Google is attempting to do what libraries already do with the books they own, which is to create an index (a card catalog) that will let readers find information in a text. Using a card catalog is not robbing the author of any income – he or she has already been paid for the book by the library."

Google [Book Search] Would Benefit the Public (fee access)
John M. Moran, The Hartford Courant – October 27, 2005
"Creative examples of leveraging the fair-use exemptions for the benefit of the public should be encouraged. Potential benefits from a searchable library of books are immense for users, writers and publishers. Everyone wins when people who want to read can find what they're looking for. If Google [Book Search] wins, you will, too."

Writers Side With Google in Scrap
Joanna Glasner, Wired News – October 25, 2005
"Google's plan to scan library book collections and make them searchable may be drawing ire from publishers and authors' advocates, but some obscure and first-time writers are lining up on the search engine's side of the dispute -- arguing that the benefits of inclusion in the online database outweigh the drawbacks. 'A cover does sell a book to a certain extent, but once you're intrigued by a cover you want to dig deeper,' said Meghann Marco. For a first-time author, Marco said, having people read parts of her book online and decide not to buy it isn't the worst thing that could happen. The more disturbing scenario is for no one to read it at all."

Riches We Must Share...
Mary Sue Coleman, The Washington Post – October 22, 2005
"We must not lose sight of the transformative nature of Google's plan or the public good that can come from it. Imagine what this means for scholars and the general public, who, until now, might have discovered only a fraction of the material written on a subject. We must continue to ensure access to the vast intellectual opportunity and knowledge we generate and preserve...this endeavor exemplifies the spirit under which our nation's copyright law was developed: to encourage the free exchange of ideas in the service of innovation and societal progress. At its core is the most important principle of all: to facilitate the sharing of knowledge, not to stifle such exchange."

A Bookworm's Delight
Victor Keegan, The Guardian – October 21, 2005
"The prospect of having an electronic wonder in the form of a virtual Library of Alexandria, in which anyone anywhere in the world can access almost anything ever written in books (as long as they are online) is just brilliant. It could lead to lots of forgotten books coming back into print. Google's vision could lead to a huge leap in the scope for searchable knowledge. I can't wait to have access to all those lost books. So Google on."

Authors' Second Chance
Jason Fry, The Wall Street Journal – October 10, 2005
"...it's the search engines that tame the Web's terabytes upon terabytes of information by making it all searchable. Google [Book Search] could bring those same advantages to all the book world's frustrated and forgotten authors, putting their ideas before a limitless audience that could then buy their books. That seems like something any author or publisher would want -- and Google is willing to do the work for them..."

Google [Book Search] Extends, Embraces European Books
David Utter, Web Pro News – September 1, 2005
"The Mountain View home of Google wants to assemble the collective works of Europe's cultural centers into an accessible digital index, available as a reference source to all...Additional content on Google [Book Search] pages in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain tells publishers in those countries how they can get involved."

Google book project a boon for publishers (fee access)
The New Zealand Herald – August 19, 2005
"[Google Books] will be a boon for a publishing industry that faces the daunting task of trying to get its authors noticed in a crowded and competitive marketplace."

Google [Book Search] Brings Publishers Business
Bill Dyszel, Publish – June 3, 2005
"While some of the publishers encountered early resistance within their organizations, all eventually found that the benefits of making their context searchable and viewable far outweighed any risks."

Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project
Barbara Quint, Information Today – December 20, 2004
"For years, librarians have bemoaned the failure of patrons to realize that not everything is on the Web and that there was life before the Internet. Both problems may now be on the way to a solution. Holding true to its mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries in the U.S. and the U.K. aimed at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections."