Google book

You may recall that some time ago, Google started scanning/digitising every book they could find and putting on the internet for searching.

Court actions ensured and the project was scaled back somewhat to out of print/out of copyright books.

Now the court case has been settled (subject to the Court’s approval) and the project goes on:

IPkat here (with press releases etc.) – the horse’s (well, Google’s) mouth here.

Publisher’s Weekly here via Marty.

Australian Copyright Council here.