Google Says There Are 129,864,880 Books In The World

In its effort to digitize all of the world’s books, Google wanted to know just how many books were out there. In their research, the online company counted 129,864,880 books in the world.

GalleyCat reports: “In a fascinating post about how Google copes with metadata surrounding millions and millions of books, the Internet company announced they have counted 129,864,880 books in the world.”

Google software engineer Leonid Taycher blogged about Google’s approach to defining books. They don’t include all “works” like many libraries do, and it goes beyond ISBN numbers, which only came around in the mid 60s.

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