October 28, 2003

Google.com has begun talks with book publishers to compile a searchable database of the contents of thousands of volumes, a publishing executive briefed on the project said yesterday.

A spokesman for Google, David Krane, declined to comment. Google's move coincides with a recent effort by Amazon.com to court Internet users looking for information by enabling them to search for words or phrases in its own database of the contents of thousands of books.

Amazon.com said the service was intended to please its customers and sell more books, but the archive of books also helps make Amazon.com more attractive as a source of information.

A newsletter from the trade magazine Publishers Weekly reported the moves yesterday.

Source: New York Times

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