Googlified

The Bavarian State Library has joined Google Book Search’s Library Project, becoming the 13th partner in the program. The Bavarian State Library is the largest library partner located outside the U.S, here are some statistics:

• ca. 9 million books
• 90,200 manuscripts
• ca. 47,200 subscription periodicals and monographic series (Europe’s second largest holding)
• 19,900 incunabula (the world’s largest holding)

Now look at Google Book Library Project’s current standing:

• Publisher partners: Over 10,000 from around the world
• Library partners: 13 today
• Books in the index: Over a million
• Book Search interfaces: 9 (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese)

Yeah, there are abundant of books, but only a few of them are Full View enabled…