Google has held the presentation of the Google Books service in Moscow. Press conference and a meeting with Russia's publishers had the head of affiliate programs service Google Books in the EMEA region of Santiago de la Mora and CEO of Google in Russia Vladimir Dolgov.
Books Google - is a global project of the company, whose goal is to create a comprehensive index, which will include information on books in different languages. The project Google is working with more than 30 thousands of major publishing houses (Affiliate Program) and 40 libraries (Library Project) worldwide.
Today, the Google Books service contains more than 10 million books in 100 languages. In the online catalog can be found both books in the public domain, and the books protected by copyright. Depending on the status of publication and the decision of copyright holders, you can see: the entire book (WYSIWYG view), a limited number of pages specified by owner (Limited Preview) or brief excerpts of the book containing the search query (Snippet). The book can also be completely closed (Status - Not available for viewing). In this case, the user can see only basic information about the book: title, author's name, number of pages and year of publication.
Partner Program Google is working with Russia's publishers as Olma Media Group, Eksmo, AST, Peter, Geleos, Dialectics, and many others. Representatives from these and other Russian publishing houses participated in the meeting with representatives of Google, during which Santiago de la Mora and Vladimir Dolgov told in detail about the service, opportunities for cooperation and ways to generate revenue through the Google Books service to publishers and authors.
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