Book publishers in five European countries, France, Italy, Germany, Holland and Spain can sign up online and send their books to Google’s Print Publishers Program.


Google’s extended book scanning operation provides an opportunity for European Book publishers to enter the Google Print. Publishers in France, Italy, Germany, Holland and Spain can sign up onlline and then send their books to Google.

Google will scan the books and add the whole text to its search index. Users of Google Search will be able to read the books and then order for the books by clicking on the online retailers’links. Publishers will get a cut of the revenue generated by pay-per-click advertising of the search results.

Publishers who have already joined Google Print includes: Grupo Planeta and Grupo Anaya in Spain, De Boeck and Editions De L’Eclat of France, Springer Science & Business Media in Holland and the Italian Giunti Editore.

As per the details provided by Google publishers can specify how much of a book a user will be able to view. The minimum is 20 percent of the book’s entire contents. Google will also disables the print, cut, copy and save functionality on all pages where the content of the book is included.

Jim Gerber, Google director of content partnerships said, “We are expanding the program to make it available to all publishers of all sizes in a number of new languages”.

Google Book Search and the main Google Search will include the indexed book content.

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To join Google Print publishers can click here.

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