The Google Print sites–for France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain–enable users to search books provided by publishers in each country as well as English-language books in the Google library for which the company has secured local rights.
Susan Wojcicki, a vice president for product management at Google, said in an interview Monday that the new sites currently could be used to search only a relatively small number of books. Many of those have been scanned since August, when the company, seeking to expand its online book program, began approaching European publishers.
Google is planning to discuss the new sites this week at the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the largest annual gatherings of publishers, agents and authors. A Google executive is also scheduled to take part in a three-hour panel discussion on Friday about the numerous competing efforts to digitize books.
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