Google is adding support for eligible Google Play Books purchases in Gemini Notebook, letting readers ask questions and create AI-generated material based directly on books they own.
The feature is part of a new initiative called Expert Intelligence, which launches with more than 100,000 books from publishers including Penguin Random House, Macmillan Publishers, O’Reilly Media, Bloomsbury, De Gruyter Brill and Johns Hopkins University Press.
Readers can add supported ebooks to a Gemini Notebook and use them as sources alongside other material. Gemini can then answer questions grounded in the book or generate formats such as quizzes, infographics and Audio Overviews.
Users can also combine a book with their own information. For example, Google says someone could use advice from a management book alongside workplace notes, or combine a food-related title with details about ingredients they already have.
Google has also worked with more than 15 authors, including Steven Pinker, Michael Pollan and Jennifer Wallace, on Featured Notebooks containing additional material related to their work.
Users must own an eligible title through Google Play Books before they can interact with it in Gemini Notebook. If a notebook is shared, collaborators do not automatically gain access to the book and must purchase their own copy before they can use it as a source.
Supported books can be identified through Google Play Books, where Gemini Notebook will appear under the Tools option on eligible titles.
Google is also offering eligible users in the U.S. one ebook at no charge using the promotional code EXPERTINTELLIGENCE, while supplies last and subject to the offer’s terms.
Expert Intelligence is launching first with books in Gemini Notebook. Google says it plans to expand the initiative to the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, while adding support for other sources including third-party subscriptions, business research reports and textbooks.
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