Google Print development history
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See also Google Print Library Project, Google Print copyright issues, Google Print competitors, Google Print hacking history and Google Print hacking.
This page attempts to track the history of the Google Print project. More specifically, I want to record changes to the user interface, changes to the content available, and changes to DRM.
While I've been following the project since its inception, I only began this page in April 2005, so I don't have definitive dates for early developments. Please feel free to contribute information to this page.
Don't forget about magazine content, for example [1] as returned by this search.
Initial release
- October 7, 2004
- An early report about the Google Print project, and its announcement at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Most interesting is the list of publishers involved from the beginning --- Penguin, Wiley, Hyperion, Pearson, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge, Chicago, Oxford, Princeton and Scholastic.
- December 14, 2004
- Google Print results begin appearing on the main search page. ([2].)
- April 8, 2005
- Google now lists Book search on their search features page.
Searching multiple books
At some point shortly prior to April 15, 2005, it became possible to search across all the books in the Google Print catalogue. Details?
Not long afterwards (certainly before April 22, 2005), searches on the main Google page which returned books also included a link (the title 'Books results for ...') to the complete results for the given search term, across all books.
These changes make it plausible to construct a fairly extensive index of the books held by Google Print, by recording ISBNs and their associated Google Print id. To my knowledge, this has not been attempted.
