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Changes to Google Print Program Announced Today

Posted late last night by Adam M. Smith, Google Print Product Manager, on the Google Blog: “As with many ambitious ideas, Google Print has sparked a healthy amount of discussion…Today I’d like to mention two new features that reflect these discussions and which we feel will considerably improve both programs. If you’re in the Publisher Program…you can now give us a list of the books that, if we scan them at a library, you’d like to have added immediately to your account. This way you can have your books in Google Print, which will put them into Google.com search results, direct potential buyers to your website, provide ongoing reports about user interest in your books, and your books will also earn revenue from contextual advertising – even if they are out of print….To allow plenty of time to review these new options, we won’t scan any in-copyright books from now until this November.”

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