Google eBooks: How will this impact libraries?

Google Books Discussion led by Interim Library Director, Cyril Oberlander

Google Books Discussion led by Interim Library Director, Cyril Oberlander

In early December, Google launched Google eBooks, a service for buying and reading digital books directly in the browser.

Google has announced plans to scan all known existing books (130 million of them) by the end of the decade and his is going to impact libraries and the services they provide, so several of Milne’s librarians took time out to share lunch and catch up on the latest developments in a presentation by Milne’s Interim Director, Cyril Oberlander.

Have you tried out their new service? Are eBooks the way you want to read and do research?

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