The sites below exemplify some of the many, creative ways you can integrate Book Search with your site or app.
Are you a publisher or retailer looking to integrate with Book Search? Let us know.
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"Our books connect people with their hometowns and we hope that giving them a look inside to see family, friends and landmarks will increase our sales of each book."
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"The integration with Book Search API was quite fast. Just after a quick reading of the guidelines and examples, we were already running the first integration tests through AJAX requisitions."
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"The Google Book Search APIs represent an important advance in accessing the content scanned on behalf of libraries participating in the Google Book Search Library Project. Working together enables us to increase the presence of these libraries and their collections on the Web."
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"Book covers, title, authors' names are all essential information but are far from sufficient. By integrating with Google Book Search, we can help booklovers discover new books much more easily and accurately."
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"Customers can sample songs on our music section before they buy them - so why not books! Now our customers are able to make more informed decisions about buying a particular title, since they can go beyond the usual information about the author, book description and image, and actually browse the book contents." |
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"The embedding of Google search is another way to offer greater access to Apress content in a secure environment. We are excited to participate and believe that it will make our site more useful, powerful, and valued by the IT and Development communities." |
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"We are delighted to be integrating Google Preview into the Blackwell online service. This provides customers with an opportunity to leaf through the covers of a book, in the way they might when browsing through our shelves in Oxford. They'll get a much greater sense of the book—the quality of writing, the breadth of material and the level it is pitched at. We are confident this will lead to happier customers – driving sales and reducing returns." |
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"Integrating with Google Book Search will make the digital bookshelf closer to a real one." |
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"By integrating with Google Book Search, our customers can make a much more informed decision when buying a book. Ultimately using Google Book Search will make our books more accessible and easier to discover." |
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"The Book Depository has over 1.8 million titles available our site. As the ‘long tail’ of titles increases, the need for additional information on the titles is essential, so this partnership helps us to deliver our mission ‘all books to all’, giving as many people as possible access all books ever published." |
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"Google provided a great plug-and-play solution to add preview functionality to the Buy.com site."
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"We're excited to make accessible and highlight UC's rich collection of scholarly materials to not only UC students and faculty, but to the public at large as well. Using the Google Book Search APIs we can enable our users' access to digital versions of print resources and help them make more informed choices about the materials they use for research or request from other libraries."
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"When it comes to online shopping, the book is at a disadvantage: customers can't see the pages inside. Having integrated with Book Search, our customers can now enjoy on Capitulodos.com the best of our offline experience."
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"Goodreads has over a million users who love to read books. Many of these members complain that they actually spend too much time on the site instead of reading. But now with Google book search we can help fix their problem - they will be able to browse the books right on the site!"
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"Having a partnership with Google that allows our customers to become a more informed consumer by allowing them to browse more completely is important in reaching new and dedicated
audiences. We are pleased to offer our customers this service through Google Book Search." —Gary L. Gentel, President, Trade and Reference Division, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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"Discovery is one of the most difficult aspects of physical book publishing; Google Book Search provides an excellent solution." |
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"With the ability to search and view books right on weRead, a member receiving a book recommendation from a friend can quickly see how it is rated, read through a few pages, and decide to add the book to her 'want to read' list ... Google Book Search is the first step towards a fundamental shift in the way we find and discover books." |
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