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Live Search Books

Live Search Books was a search service for books launched in December 2006, part of Microsoft's Live Search range of services. Microsoft was working with a number of libraries, including the British Library, to digitize books and make them searchable, and in the case of out-of-copyright books, available across the web.

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Live Search Books displayed in-copyright book contents from the following sources: • Publishing partners including the [American Museum of Veterinary History ], Academic Resources Corporation, Amherst Media, Bearport Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, Harrison House Publishers, Harvard University Press, Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, Institute for International Economics, John Wiley & Sons Publishing, Lerner Publishing Group, MBI Publishing Company, McGraw-Hill Companies, Microsoft Corporation, MIT Press, OECD, Osprey Publishing, Oxford University Press, Pearson Education, PREP Publishing, Rodale, Rutgers University Press, Simon & Schuster, Springer, SUNY Press, Taylor & Francis Group, The Perseus Books Group, The World Bank, University of Massachusetts Press, Wheatmark, Wilderness Press, World Health Organization, World Scientific Publishing Company, World Wisdom, and Yale University Press • Contents uploaded using Live Search Books Publisher Program In addition to the normal search capabilities, Live Search Books also featured: • Filter by the percentage of viewable contents • Hit density map allowing users to see where the search results fall in a given title • Preview window on the right displaying the title, author, cover image, summary, table of contents previews, hit density map, subject, publisher, published year, and ISBN • Limited page previews with page preview counter restricting users to sign into their Windows Live ID to view only the number of pages limited by the publisher • Search keywords within the book • Download the entire book in PDF format • Book viewer allowing users to view full pages or zoomed in, flip through the book page by page, and link to the book's table of contents ==See also==
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