Google Books Reaches Out With New API by Michael LoPresti, Information Today (Mar 20)
"... Google announced the release of a new application programming interface (API) for the service that enables external websites to connect directly to any of the texts in the Google Book Search index. Google Book Search is a tool that searches the full text of books that are scanned, rendered searchable, and stored by Google in its digital database. Books Viewability, as the API is called (http://code.google.com/apis/books), gives web developers the ability, through a set of software protocols, to locate titles on Google Book Search and automatically embed links to those books on their own sites."
Posted by Gwen at March 24, 2008 10:57 AM