Overview
- Google introduced Expert Intelligence on Thursday, August 27, 2026, inside Gemini Notebook so users can import ebooks bought on Google Play Books and ask the text questions or generate interactive outputs.
- The tool supports more than 100,000 English-language titles from major houses such as Penguin Random House, Macmillan, O’Reilly and Johns Hopkins University Press, with an initial focus on nonfiction trade books.
- Google worked with 15 authors to create curated 'Featured Notebooks' that include author-written introductions and extra materials to accompany the imported book content.
- Built protections require a user to own a book on Google Play before Gemini Notebook will show its full text, and shared Notebooks list sources but direct non-owners to purchase the title to view content.
- Publishers praised the purchase-gated, attributed approach as a responsible model for book-based AI, which could boost discovery and sales even as legal fights over AI training data continue to shape industry deals.