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.