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Find and read magazines online with Google Book Search

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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.

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Web

Mygazines online magazine pirating site closes

Mygazines
Mygazines made a splash a few months ago by launching a service that lets you read your favorite magazines online - without paying. The plan might have worked if the company had, I don't know, partnered with magazine publishers to make free ad-supported versions of the magazine available. But that's not what happened. Instead, Mygazines encouraged users to scan their own magazines and upload them to share with others.

Flash forward a few months and Mygazines is no more. A visit to the company's homepage shows a message saying that the service has gone under due to "monetary reasons and the state of the global economy." Because that's what did it in. The global economy. Not a flawed business model that was incurring the wrath of publishers.

[via Wired]

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