Free Downloads of Public Domain Books Now Available From Google Book Search

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Aug 30, 2006

Google press release: “Starting today, readers can find new, and free, downloadable versions of some of the world’s greatest books on Google Book Search. Working with our library partners, we’re expanding access to books that are out of copyright and have become public domain material. Users can search and read these books on Google Book Search like always, but now they can also download and print them to enjoy at their own pace.”
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Postings on Project Gutenberg

U. of Michigan Adds Books Digitized by Google to Online Catalog, but Limits Use of Some: “If a scanned book is still under copyright…users will not be able to read the digital copy. Instead, the card-catalog system will return a list of the pages that contain the search term and how many times the term appears on those pages. The reader will be directed to the library’s stacks for the printed book.”

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