Google took another step towards ingesting all the world’s printed knowledge. In addition to books and newspapers, Google Book Search now archives millions of pages of magazines from New York Magazineand Ebony to Popular Mechanics.
The magazines have been scanned and digitized and are presented using a similar interface to the one Google recently developed for archived newspapers.
You can browse different covers of a magazine or dive into a specific issue and turn the scanned pages, which come complete with all of the old advertisements. You can search within an issue. You can zoom in and zoom out fairly quickly. There is also a subscribe link. And when you look at the page with the covers, a Google Map shows all the places mentioned in various issues, with links to the pages where those places are mentioned.
I couldn’t find any Time Inc. or Conde Nast publications. There is no Fortune, no Time, no Sports Illustrated, no New Yorker, no Vogue. There is no Newsweek either. Hopefully, these magazines will be added eventually. (Google already has a deal with Time Inc, which has opened up its archive of Time-Life photos to image search). Hearst has Popular Mechanics and plans to add Town & Country and others. While Google scans the magazines and stores the digital images, the magazine publishers are free to use any of the scanned pages on their Websites.
If print ever dies, at least there should be a digital copy of all of this history on Google.
This is a very big job. Look forward to read their.
I think they will see popularity when they add the big name magazines
Google books still has problems, how will magazine be?
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Nothing new here. Findarticles.com is the defacto leader in this area. LookSmart sold it to CNET and now it is part of CBS.
Isn’t FindArticles just the text? This is the entire scanned page with photos and illustrations, which is pretty important in a magazine.
…another step towards ingesting all the world’s printed knowledge FORMATS.
Let’s be remotely realistic, here. They are worlds away from digitizing all human print media.
and your point is?
this is a test of FB Connect!
This is test of google ?
No surprise here really?
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Don´t forget The Economist .
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Its worth reading Google books if l technology books are added
You should check out http://www.issuu.com. It got a ton of mags and looks really amazing.
The new magazine section of Google Books is like issuu.com, but with magazines that people have actually heard of and seen on their newsstand.
I think this is great! How many times have you gone searching for an article you read but can’t remember the issue or even the magazine it was in? Especially because few magazines publish the same content in their online versions as they do in print editions. I look forward to using it once it includes a wider range of publications.
If you are searching for a list of available magazines you can find one on my latest Blogpost.
As a book publisher, I have mixed feelings about this. For one thing, Google will make money, but what about writers and publishers? I’m talking about ultimately. I know the average reader doesn’t care as long as something’s free, but I see a day when the web Won’t be free, and I wonder what this information will be worth to people then.