Google Books: Forskelle mellem versioner

Google Books er blevet hyldet for dets potentiale til at kunne levere en hidtil uset adgang til hvad der kan blive til verdens største online-tjeneste for menneskelig viden<ref>{{cite news|first=Kevin|last=Bergquist|title=Google project promotes public good|url=http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0506/Feb13_06/02.shtml|work=The University Record|publisher=[[University of Michigan]]|date=2006-02-13|accessdate=2007-04-11 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Is This the Renaissance or the Dark Ages?|last=Pace|first=Andrew K.|url=http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/techspeaking/2006columnsa/techJan2006.cfm|date=Januaryjanuar 2006|work=American Libraries|publisher=American Library Association|accessdate=2007-04-11|quote=Google made instant e-book believers out of skeptics even though 10 years of e-book evangelism among librarians had barely made progress.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403083647/http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/techspeaking/2006columnsa/techJan2006.cfm|archivedate=2007-04-07|deadurl=y}}</ref> og for at fremme demokratiseringen af viden.<ref name="spiegel">[http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,473529-2,00.html Malte Herwig, "Google's Total Library", ''Spiegel Online International'', 28. marts 2007]</ref>

Pr. april 2013 var der indskannet mere end 30 millioner titler, men skanningsprocessen går i dag langsommere end tidligere.<ref name="LP">{{cite web|url=http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2012/03/google-book-scan-project-slows-down.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315101155/http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2012/03/google-book-scan-project-slows-down.html |archivedate=2012-03-15|title=Google book scan project slows down |accessdate=Marchmarts 2012 |quote=|publisher=Law Librarian Blog}}</ref><ref name="The New York Review of Books">{{cite news |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/25/national-digital-public-library-launched/ |title=The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! |publisher= The New York Review of Books }}</ref> Google anslog i 2010, at der var omkring 130 millioner titler i verden,<ref name="PCWORLD">[http://www.pcworld.com/article/202803/google_129_million_different_books_have_been_published.html Google: 129 Million Different Books Have Been Published] PC World</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-counted.html |date=5. august 2010 |title=Books of the world |accessdate=2010-08-15 |quote=After we exclude serials, we can finally count all the books in the world. There are 129,864,880 of them. At least until Sunday |publisher=[[Google]] }}</ref> og oplyste, at man forventede at have dem alle indskannet ved udgangen af årtiet.<ref name="PCWORLD"/>