If you're already a Google Books partner, you just need to tell us what books you'd like to add by including them on your book list. Once we find a book at a library that you've listed, instead of users seeing the Snippet View, they will see the Sample Pages View with links back to your website and your logo. The book will also appear in your Google Books account where you can view reports on how many users are viewing the book.

We might, unless you let us know that you'd prefer us not to. If a publisher or author has provided a book through the Partner Program and we scan the same ISBN from a library, the publisher's version of the book will be displayed. However, the library will get a digital copy of the book as a part of their collection. Learn more here. If you want us to avoid scanning your books through the Library Project, just check the box in your Google Books account. Learn how to set this up here.

If you are a current Google Books partner, you can simply upload a list of your books that you don't want scanned through the Library Project. Just login to your account and follow the instructions here. That tells us which books to avoid when scanning.

If you're not a Google Books partner and want us to avoid your books, you'll need to provide us with a small amount of information about yourself as well as a list of the books you don't want in Google Books. Unless you specify otherwise, we'll use your information only to verify that you are indeed the owner of that particular book. Please see our privacy policy for more details. To begin this process, please start here to identify yourself as the owner.

If you're having trouble coming up with your list or have questions or just need help, please send us an email. We'd be happy to help you.
 

Whether a book is in the public domain is a complex legal determination; how we treat books published at different times is less complex. For users in the United States, Google Books treats all books published after 1922 as protected by copyright, except for books to which no copyright was attached in the first instance, such as books authored by the U.S. Government. For the books we treat as in copyright, we show at most the bibliographic information and short snippets of text. For users outside of the United States, we'll make determinations based on appropriate local law. As with all of our decisions related to the Google Books content, our plan is to be conservative in our reading of both copyright law and the known facts surrounding a particular book.

Yes. The use Google makes is fully consistent with both the history of fair use under copyright law, and also all the principles underlying copyright law itself. Copyright law has always been about ensuring that authors will continue to write books and publishers continue to sell them.  By making books easier to find, buy, and borrow from libraries, Google Books helps increase the incentives for authors to write and publishers to sell books.  To achieve that goal, we need to make copies of books, but these copies are permitted under copyright law.

This project is very similar to web search. In order to electronically index a webpage, you need to make a copy of it. In order to electronically index a book, we have to make a digital copy of the book. As with web search, the copies we make are used to direct people to the books.

Yes. Each library will receive a digital copy of every book we scan at their specific library. Each library will treat their copies in accordance with copyright law.