| Miller, Laura 9 September 2010 | , "Google's Total Library", Spiegel Online International, Mar |
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| When Google announced in December 2004 that it would digitally scan the books of five major research libraries to make their contents searchable, the promise of a universal library was resurrected | From the days of Sumerian clay tablets till now, humans have "published" at least 32 million books, 750 million articles and essays, 25 million songs, 500 million images, 500,000 movies, 3 million videos, TV shows and short films and 100 billion public Web pages |
| Of the seven million books Google has scanned, one million are in full preview mode as part of formal publisher agreements | Parks, Tim 13 September 2014 |
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| Google made instant e-book believers out of skeptics even though 10 years of e-book evangelism among librarians had barely made progress | Another one million are public domain works |
| Barbara Quint, , Information Today, August 27, 2007 | |
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| Copyright infringement suits against Google and their settlement: | James Somers 20 April 2017 |