Google Book Previews on Websites

Improvements to Google's Book Search service now allows websites to include a "Google Preview" button. When the viewer clicks on the button, a smaller window overlays the page with preview and search features. I think it looks better than the same service presented at Google Book Search, at least the example at Books-a-Million does.

You can read what Google reveals about the new feature at Inside Google Book Search: Book Search everywhere with new partnerships and tools and check out websites that are already using it. In addition to publishers and booksellers, some early adopters include libraries, universities, authors, and social book sharing sites:

You can now import your Book Search My Library collection straight into your aNobii account, or preview books within the weRead gadget for social networks. Be sure to also try out the exciting integrations by BookJetty, GoodReads, and BookRabbit.

I'm not familiar with any of these, but through the years I've mentioned other personal library services we can use to catalog and display book selections and collections in blogs and websites. I've let others be the guinea pigs and have been favorably impressed with the results. (I have too many books and too little time to try them out myself.)