Someone somewhere in the world is searching for the opening lines of Melville’s "Moby Dick," or maybe a phrase from Toni Morrison’s "Beloved," an anecdote from a Bart Starr biography, a speech by ...

URBANA - The small German emblem books are hundreds of years old and so delicate that researchers using them are given instructions on how to open them without damaging the bindings. They are stored ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Google Inc argued in a staunch and sometimes eloquent brief that an agreement reached with the Authors Guild to digitize millions of books was legal and a contribution ...

Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page after another, as part of his mission to digitize historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing. Seen as the world's ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Book publishers cried foul – in the form of numerous legal challenges – nearly two decades ago when the Google Books project digitized and freely distributed more than 25 million works.