Google Launches AI E-Book Tool for 100,000 Titles as Publishers Praise Copyright Guardrails
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Updated · Publishers Weekly · Aug 27
Google Launches AI E-Book Tool for 100,000 Titles as Publishers Praise Copyright Guardrails
3 articles · Updated · Publishers Weekly · Aug 27
Summary
More than 100,000 English-language Google Play Books titles now support Expert Intelligence, which lets readers question a purchased e-book, take quizzes, and generate infographics or slide decks inside Gemini Notebook.
Google built the feature with publishers so responses are isolated to the purchased book itself—delivered as direct quotes or AI syntheses—rather than drawn from broader model training data.
Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury and the Authors Guild welcomed the launch as a copyright-respecting AI model, a notable contrast with a July lawsuit accusing Google of widespread infringement in training Gemini.
The rollout is limited to books bought through Google Play, starts mostly with nonfiction trade titles, and could later expand to textbooks, journals and self-published works depending on publisher contracts and regional terms.