Google to offer Dante’s Inferno
p2pnet.net News:- Google is to offer public domain books such as Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia and Dante’s Inferno – for free.
It’ll, “start allowing users to download and print books that are out of copyright in its book search engine,” says Bloomberg News.
Google’s book search service, “stems from a wider project to put books online in a searchable format, which it is undertaking with major universities,” says the BBC.
“Working with Google on the Books Library project are Oxford University, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of California, as well as the New York Public Library.”
Google says the University of California will be included on the list of libraries from which it’s scanning books, says Bloomberg, adding:
“For books protected by copyright, Google will display bibliographic information and small snippets of text. Those books can’t be downloaded.”
Also See:
Bloomberg News – Google to Offer Downloadable Versions of Out-of-Copyright Books, August 30, 2006
BBC – Google makes novels free to print, August 30, 2006
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August 30th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Not going to slag on google for making the offer, but it will probably be cheaper, more statisfactory, and a whole lot less wasteful to make a trip to the used book store. I suppose if a person lives way out in the sticks AND has high speed internet. An unlikely combo…
August 31st, 2006 at 5:14 am
Not unlikely at all. I live in a very rural part of the Deep South and I can tell you right now that libraries are far and few between and only the *elite* can afford a internet high speed account.