[Web4lib] RE: Google Allows Downloads of out-of-copyright Books

[Brian Sheppard]

Jenn, it's from Michigan, scanned as part of ongoing preservation  
efforts. I gather Google gets a copy of these.
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ABR0624.0001.001

Here, you can't very easily download the whole book, but you can view  
the full text (dirty OCR).
And you can order a print-on-demand copy.

-Brian

On August 30, at 11:55 AM, Riley, Jenn wrote:

> I'm wondering about the specific book Leslie linked to below  
> (Flatland).
> On p. 2 of the downloaded PDF, it says "Scanned by Imagenes Digitales,
> Nogales, AZ. On behalf of Preservation Division, The University of
> Michigan Libraries." This whole page looks like something Michigan  
> would
> include in their own digitization. Is this a Google scan or a Michigan
> scan? Does anyone know what's up?
>
> Jenn
>
>
>> Message: 23
>> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:02:11 -0400
>> From: Leslie Johnston <johnston at virginia.edu>
>> Subject: [Web4lib] Google Allows Downloads of out-of-copyright Books
>> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
>> Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.0.20060830110110.02d52520 at virginia.edu>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>>
>> All,
>>
>>> Google is adding a feature to its Google Book Search service today
>>> to allow PDF downloads of out-of-copyright books.
>>
>> http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/30/google-allows-downloads-o
> f-out-of-copyright-books/
>>
>> It's definitely not consistently available yet, but here's an  
>> example:
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC18938030&id=HKackp-vG-YC
> &pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=abbott+flatland
>>
>> Sometimes it's full view only, sometimes it's download only, and
>> sometimes there are both options.  The service is launching today, so
>> I don't know if this is a bug or a feature ...
>>
>> Leslie
>>
>> ------------
>> Leslie Johnston
>> Head, Digital Access Services
>> University of Virginia Library
>> http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/
>> http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/das/
>> johnston at virginia.edu
>>
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