Gemini Notebook Now Imports Google Play Books Titles, Unlocking 100,000 eBooks for AI Analysis
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Gemini Notebook can analyze your Google Play books now: 3 ways I use this feature
Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Google's Gemini Notebook helps you research and learn about different topics through AI-generated reports, slideshows, quizzes, audio podcasts, and more. To set this up, you can add specific sources of information to your notebook, such as
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Google's AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books
Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate
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Gemini Notebook Can Now Dig Into eBooks You Bought on Google Play
Google on Thursday added support for ebooks in its AI note-taking tool, Gemini Notebook -- previously known as NotebookLM. With the new feature, labeled Expert Intelligence, you can add titles purchased on Google Play Books as sources in a notebook, and then ask the AI tool questions you may have,
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Gemini Notebook now imports your Google Play Books titles, turning shelfware into notes
Users can also combine insights from multiple titles for a broader knowledge bank in a single notebook. Using copyrighted text for training large language models has been a controversial topic for as long as AI has been a buzzword. That hasn't stopped frontier labs from gaining access to books,
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Google announces 'Expert Intelligence' to let you add Play Books in Gemini Notebook
Expert Intelligence is a new "cross Google initiative that helps you engage with your trusted sources through Google AI products," starting with Play Books and Gemini Notebook. Select ebooks that you've purchased from Google Play Books can now be added to Gemini Notebook and used as a source This
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Google just gave Gemini access to your ebooks -- 7 prompts for readers and students
Now you can use AI to dive deeper into your ebooks for everything from fan fiction to flash cards Ebooks made it possible to carry a collection of books with you wherever you go. Now, Google's new Expert Intelligence feature could make ebooks more interactive. It lets you add eligible titles
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Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content
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Google's New AI Update for eBooks Lets You Do More than Simply Read Them
Google recently announced the launch of Expert Intelligence, a new AI-powered feature which allows users to essentially integrate trusted sources and purchased ebooks directly into Google AI products. Starting today, readers can add eligible books purchased through Google Play Books into Gemini
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Google Gemini's New E-Book AI Feature: What It Can Do for Readers
Licensed access: Book ownership remains required, helping protect publisher and author control over copyrighted content. A book can now do more than sit inside a digital library. Google has added a new AI feature that lets eligible Google Play Books titles work with Gemini Notebook, the product
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Google launched Expert Intelligence for Gemini Notebook, allowing users to import Google Play Books titles directly into the AI note-taking app. The feature supports over 100,000 eBooks from publishers like Penguin Random House and Macmillan, enabling users to analyze Google Play books, generate summaries, create AI podcasts, and build interactive learning resources.
Gemini Notebook Launches Expert Intelligence for Google Play Books Integration
Google unveiled Expert Intelligence, a capability that enables Gemini Notebook to import Google Play Books titles directly into its AI note-taking app
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. Previously known as NotebookLM, Gemini Notebook now allows users to interact with books they've purchased, transforming static eBooks into dynamic learning resources4
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. Users can ask questions about book content, generate summaries, create infographics, produce AI podcasts, and develop quizzes based on material from their purchased titles3
.The integration works exclusively with books purchased through Google Play Books, addressing concerns about copyrighted material by requiring users to own titles before accessing their content through AI-powered research tools
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. When users share notebooks containing purchased books, collaborators must buy their own copies to view the full text or information related to those sources1
. This approach creates new revenue possibilities for authors and publishers while providing users access to expert knowledge2
.100,000 Titles Available from Major Publishers
At launch, Expert Intelligence supports over 100,000 eBooks from leading publishers including Penguin Random House, Macmillan Publishers, Bloomsbury, De Gruyter Brill, Johns Hopkins University Press, and O'Reilly Media
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. Google also partnered with 15 bestselling authors, including Michael Pollan, Kim Scott, Steven Pinker, and Jennifer Wallace, to create Featured Notebooks that supplement their titles with additional source material and introductory letters2
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.During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson demonstrated how users can generate a recipe book using information from Michael Pollan's Food Rules, or apply management principles from Kim Scott's Radical Candor to handle difficult workplace conversations
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. Johnson emphasized the vision of building "a collection of people whose work you really value, and kind of creating your own dream team of advisors that are just available to you wherever you go"2
.Practical Applications and AI Innovation
The AI note-taking app enables users to combine insights from multiple titles within a single notebook, creating a broader knowledge bank for research and learning pursuits
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. Users can upload images—such as items in a fridge—and ask Gemini Notebook to plan healthy meals based on principles from books like Michael Pollan's Food Rules3
. The tool generates Audio Overviews, infographics, quizzes, and other interactive formats to help users understand complex material in new ways1
.To help users get started, Google offers a free eBook while supplies last, and provides Featured Notebooks that showcase how Expert Intelligence works with supported titles
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. Users can identify compatible books by checking for "Gemini Notebook" listed under the Tools badge on Google Play Books title pages, though this feature appears to still be rolling out1
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Addressing Copyright Concerns and Future Expansion
The launch comes as Google faces a class-action lawsuit from authors and publishers alleging that titles in Google Play Books were used to train AI models without authorization
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. Expert Intelligence represents an attempt to find middle ground by adding a layer of authorization and creating revenue opportunities for content creators, similar to OpenAI's partnerships with publishers like Associated Press, Axios, and Financial Times4
.Google plans to expand Expert Intelligence beyond Google Play Books to support scholarly articles, magazine articles, newspapers, third-party subscriptions, business research reports, and textbooks
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. The feature will also roll out to AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, both of which already pull information from Gemini Notebook2
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. This positions Expert Intelligence as Google's first major step in helping users better understand their favorite books, authors, and subjects while incorporating them as sources in larger research projects1
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