Google Print has begun to offer the entire content of public domain books. The public domain books are fully searchable.


Google Print has begun to offer the entire content of public domain books. The public domain books are fully searchable.

Adam Mathes, Associate Product Manager, has reported that Google’s partner libraries the University of Michigan, Stanford, Harvard, the New York Public Library, and Oxford, have preserved rare public domain books. These have never been available online and Google would like to make this “tremendous source of knowledge” searchable.

He has reported, “today we’ve taken an exciting step toward meeting it: making available a number of public domain books that were never subject to copyright or whose copyright has expired. We can show every page because these books are in the public domain”. [source]

Google has made public domain books fully searchable. For the others Google has decided to show only small snippets unless the publisher or copyright holder has given permission to show more.

Google is the target of many lawsuits for the scanning of copyright protected books. Authors Guild and a few publishers have filed law suits against scanning of whole collection of books in libraries.

Some of the books that are available as public domain are:

Literature: Henry James’ Daisy Miller
History: The Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War, 1862-1865
Government Documents: What the Fiftieth U.S. Congress spent money on in 1888

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