Google Book Search announced today that they were making public domain materials available for download.
In the Information Today article, it was stressed that the downloads were the pdf image files, and were not able to be keyword searched, as can be done through Google Books.
Also in the article was the announcement that the University of Michigan is making many of their scanned books available through the MBooks program. This will include not only public domain material, but also their collection of uncopyrightable works (think U.S. government publications), and works for which they have permission to make available.
This seems to be the start of a very beneficial undertaking…
from Open Access News
