Google Makes Its Book Search Available for Publishers

Google is making its book search engine available for publishers interested in placing it on their website.

Publishers will be able to program the search engine to include only books published by them. The results will provide links to stores where the books are being sold.

Curiously, a company which recently placed Google's search engine on its website, The McGraw-Hill Companies, is also suing Google for copyright infringement over Google's project to scan millions of copyright books without permission.

The Publisher objects to the partnership between Google Search and major academic libraries to scan large portions of their collections. Many of these books involve copyright subjects, which Google is digitally copying without permission from publishers or authors.

At the same time, McGraw-Hill collaborates with Google by providing one million titles to a project that allows Google to scan copyrighted material, permitting Publishers to control how much of the books can be displayed for free.

About 50 Publishers are already using Google's new search engine in their websites and there are several others in line to offer the same service to their website visitors.