http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:23:34 +0000 contract [Visitor] c58356@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ The Google Book Search service remains in a beta stage but the underlying database continues to grow. Google Book Search allows public-domain works and other out-of-copyright material to be downloaded in PDF format. For users outside the United States, though, Google must be sure that the work in question is indeed out of copyright under local laws. According to a member of the Google Book Search Support Team, "Since whether a book is in the public domain can often be a tricky legal question, we err on the side of caution and display at most a few snippets until we have determined that the book has entered the public domain http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/03/04/google_and_the_books#c58356