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Authors who are allowed to participate as partners because they have self-published or own the copyright to their books may open a Google Books account. In this way, they can manage book sales by reading detailed reports of things like:

• Page views: How many people visited the Google Books Search Web page that features your book.

• Ad clicks: How many people clicked on an ad placed within the book.

• Buy this Book clicks: How many people chose to click on the Buy this Book link to purchase the book. This does not indicate they completed the purchase, only that they clicked the link.

Google essentially has three ways of obtaining books to be scanned: when publishers send books, when authors send books, and the Google Library Project, where books in libraries are being scanned and presented only with limited bibliographic information so the copyright is not violated. If you are an author with a Google Books account and you find that one of your books has been scanned as part of the Library Project, you can have it included in your Google Books account.

Authors participating in the Partner Program can send a list of books they do not want scanned as part of the Library Program. Authors who are not part of the program can still submit a list of books they want avoided by the Library Program. They simply need to submit additional information about themselves.