Google Book Search Adds Magazines

Posted on December 10, 2008
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Sometimes Google does something really cool that, it seems, no one else has the leverage to pull off, this is just one case. I absolutely love that fact that Google has been crossing the chasm that exists between print and online, even if lurching at times. Just because something was created pre-Internet does not mean we should not have access to it.

Today, we’re announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony. Are you a baseball history fanatic? Try a search for [hank aaron pursuing babe ruth's record] on Google Book Search. You’ll find a link to a 1973 Ebony article about Hank Aaron, written as he closed in on Babe Ruth’s original record for career home runs. You can read the article in full color and in its original context, just as you would in the printed magazine. Scroll back a few pages, for example, and you’ll find a two-page spread on 1973’s fall fashions. If you’d like to read further, you can click on “Browse all issues” to view issues from across the decades.

[From Official Google Blog: Search and find magazines on Google Book Search]

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