Free Books for All at Google

Google has a huge project where they are trying to make all books that have ever been published available in digitized form on the web (see link).  Of course, they will use that collection to advertise—like they do—but it will make a huge number of out-of-print books accessible to all of us.  And as you might expect, big book sellers like Amazon don't like that idea too much.  See a recent New York times article here.