Stories about: Simon & Schuster

Microsoft plans to shutter its book-scanning operation this week, the company said on Friday.

More than a decade after the first clunky electronic books appeared, a new push is underway to get readers to curl up with digital versions of their favorite best-sellers. But despite backing from heavyweights such as Sony, Amazon and a handful of publishers, the idea has yet to catch fire with consumers.

Quick, what's the most influential piece of hardware from the early days of computing? The IBM 360 mainframe? The DEC PDP-1 minicomputer? Maybe earlier computers such as Binac, ENIAC or Univac? Or, going way back to the 1800s, is it the Babbage Difference Engine?

The book-scanning contract between Google and the University of California has made the Association of American Publishers (AAP) even more distressed over Google's project to digitize millions of volumes from libraries.

Google has expanded its controversial book search service to allow people to download whole copies of books in PDF format to their computers, with the ability to print them out.

Until a few months ago, users at publisher Simon & Schuster had to wait as long as a half-hour for results from business intelligence queries about sales figures.

Microsoft has officially released its flagship database SQL Server 2005, a product the company said is now truly ready for big businesses.

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has filed suit against Google over the search company's Google Print Library Project, the organization announced Wednesday. The project, which involves scanning library books without seeking copyright holders' permission, has proved controversial with publishers. This is the second suit to be filed against Google by a US body representing writers and publishers.

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Media and software company Gemstar-TV Guide International is seeking to be a best-seller in electronic books in a potential link-up with the largest U.S. bookseller, Barnes & Noble , analysts said on Tuesday.

Your company is investing heavily in customer relationship management (CRM) tools, has a dynamite Web site and runs a call center armed with customer information on each agent's screen. It's customer-centric - and "customer" is today's mantra.