Live Search Books

<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<p>Live Search Books displayed in-copyright book contents from the following sources:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<ul><li>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, <a href="/facts/University_of_Massachusetts_Press/y7AWs7NY">University of Massachusetts Press</a>, Wheatmark, Wilderness Press, World Health Organization, World Scientific Publishing Company, <a href="/facts/World_Wisdom/qcNhn170">World Wisdom</a>, and Yale University Press</li>
<li>Contents uploaded using Live Search Books Publisher Program</li></ul>
<p>In addition to the normal search capabilities, Live Search Books also featured:
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<ul><li>Filter by the percentage of viewable contents</li>
<li>Hit density map allowing users to see where the search results fall in a given title</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>Limited page previews with page preview counter restricting users to sign into their <a href="/facts/Windows_Live_ID/unm2BvRt">Windows Live ID</a> to view only the number of pages limited by the publisher</li>
<li>Search keywords within the book</li>
<li>Download the entire book in <a href="/facts/PDF/C9Mn1vYL">PDF</a> format</li>
<li>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</li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Google_Books/lnGRMWXs">Google Books</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Windows_Live/tyQbQbGo">Windows Live</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Live_Search/r2pIK5HT">Live Search</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li>The <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/msn_books">Microsoft</a></i> collection at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Archive/PHStU8Lo">Internet Archive</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Live Search : Book search winding down <a href="https://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2008/05/23/book-search-winding-down.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2008/05/23/book-search-winding-down.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Helft, Miguel (May 24, 2008). "Microsoft Will Shut Down Book Search Program". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-24. Microsoft said it had digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/technology/24soft.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/technology/24soft.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Mondok, Matt (12 July 2006). "Microsoft launches Live Search Books website". Ars Technica. Retrieved 16 June 2017. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2006/12/6197/" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2006/12/6197/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Live Search's WebLog: Live Search Books: Now with In-Copyright Content <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/06/01/live-search-books-now-with-in-copyright-content.aspx" target="_blank">http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/06/01/live-search-books-now-with-in-copyright-content.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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