Publishers Weekly: The Amazoning of Google? Search Firm Looks for Book Content
NY Times: Google Studies Creation of Book Database
CNET: Google eyes book search
Not content to relax prior to the IPO, Google is on Amazon's heels with a mission to catalog even more great content: books. All the online content in the world seems not enough for Google's ravenous appetite for information to catalog. No information was provided as to whether books would be an additional tab on Google, similar to news or directory content, or if book results would be merged into the main database.