http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2008/05/23/live-search-books-academic-to-shut-down.aspxIn a memo posted this morning on the Live Search blog by Senior Vice President Search, Portal and Advertising Satya Nadella, both Live Search Books and Live Search Academic will be shut down next week. Today we informed our partners that we are endingenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2008/05/23/live-search-books-academic-to-shut-down.aspx#8283Tue, 27 May 2008 04:35:52 GMT56c526a3-1f9b-4262-a0cc-2de2ce4c7619:8283quikboy<p>That's too bad. I actually though Live Search Books and Academic would stay. I thought they were pretty good in comparison with Google Books and Scholar. They were easier to use (a surprise), and seemed quite useful.</p> <p>I hope they might resurrect Books and Academic. Maybe if they had added ads, and marketed the usefulness of the two, maybe they wouldn't have buckled. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.liveside.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8283" width="1" height="1">