Find and read magazines online with Google Book Search

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Find and read magazines online with Google Book Search

by Brad Linder Dec 9th 2008

Google's efforts to digitize the world's book collection have drawn the ire of some book publishers. So what's the next step? Digitizing magazines of course. Nobody ever got in trouble for doing that, right?

But seriously, Google has announced that working with publishers, the company has digitized current and back issues of magazines including Ebony, Popular Science, and New York Magazine. You can find magazines by searching by title. Or you can conduct keyword searches using Google Book Search and magazine results will show up alongside results from books.

Google says it has begun to digitize millions of articles, but there are a ton of popular magazines that are not included in the index, presumably because Google hasn't yet been able to negotiate an agreement with the publishers.

Tags: google-book-search, magazines, mygazines

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Michael K Pate said 4:47PM on 12-09-2008

There is a similar product that some libraries offer called Popular Magazines... http://tinyurl.com/5jamnx. It will be interesting to see how this compares

Quikboy said 8:17AM on 12-11-2008

Man, I really wished Microsoft would have kept it's Live Search Books thing. I always did feel it was much better than Google Books, and one of my suggestions was to work with publishers to get magazines available via LSB.

Nice to see Google at least providing this now.

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