The Google Library

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*snip* Google, the world's top search engine, is all set to offer books from five famous libraries online, unlocking a fabulous treasure of information.

The libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library have entered into a deal with Google where the search giant will scan the entire collection available in these libraries and bring the information on millions of books online.

Google is now working with libraries to digitally scan books from their collections, and over time will integrate this content into the Google index, to make it searchable for users worldwide.

While the books without copyright will be fully displayed, those bound copyright rules will only display short excerpts, depending on the topic searched. *snip*

Seems like an interesting concept. It would totally butcher sites like iBiblio.org and NetLibrary.com
 
Oh come on, even the evening news stations reported on this almost a month ago ;), and they're fairly behind when it comes to anything tech-related. Here's Google's press release.
 
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