Google Print has many books for which the copyright has not expired.  You
will only have access to a specified and limited number of pages on thoses.



www.streetsmartbooks.com
Home of SMALL BUSINESS PRIMER:
  How to Buy, Sell & Evaluate a Business
ISBN:  0970946600
[log in to unmask]





>From: SCOTT JORDAN <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Conchologists List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Conchology books on Google
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:00:55 -0700
>
>Rich, it is simply amazing.  What I am having trouble comprehending is how
>Google can justify the expense of this project.  It must be astronomical.
>It takes time and care to scan a book, especially a rare, old work.  My
>understanding is that they want to digitize just about every book whose
>copyright protection has expired.  Can you imagine the scope of work
>involved?  I sort of doubt that they arbitrarily started with the
>conchology books!
>   sj
>
>Richard Goldberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   Scott,
>I also found Sykes, 1900 - Fauna Hawaiiensis, which includes extensive
>coverage of the Hawaiian terrestrials. An original hard copy is almost
>impossible to obtain.  As I search using the advanced book search option
>using varied key words, titles and authors even more obscure conchological
>publications keep turning up.  Actually, Google is being sued because of
>copyright infringement of a few publications.  I assume the titles with PDF
>files are those that are clearly public domain.  This is changing the face
>of research and education.
>Rich
>
>
>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:20:35 -0700
> >From: SCOTT JORDAN <[log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Conchology books on Google - 2
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Totally cool. Let's hope they keep this up.
> > sj
> >
> > Richard Goldberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > (con't.)
> >
> > Elements of Conchology: According to the Linnæan
> > System . -1815 - E. J. Burrow
> >
>http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC05298760&id=XAcAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5&dq=conchology
> >
> > The Linnæan System of Conchology - 1823 - John
> > Mawe
> >
>http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01608653&id=d_QKAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=conchology
> >
> > The elements of modern conchology - 1835 -William
> > Swainson
> >
>http://books.google.com/books?vid=0qcNYZ9-5eJQHHdG&id=0eW-_B8V6IQC&printsec=titlepage&dq=conchology
> >
> > An Introduction to the Study of Conchology:
> > Including Observations on the Linnæan Genera,
> > and... - 1815 - Samuel Brookes
> >
>http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC08583977&id=TUYAAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=conchology
> >
> > There are many more titles if you do a book search
> > on Google for "conchology"
> >
>http://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=conchology&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0
> >
> > Some of these are downloadable as PDF files.
> > Copyrighted titled are available only with a
> > limited view.
> >
> > Rich
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > worldwideconchology.com
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

_________________________________________________________________
Call friends with PC-to-PC calling -- FREE
http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline

----------------------------------------------------------------------
[log in to unmask] - a forum for informal discussions on molluscs
To leave this list, click on the following web link:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=conch-l&A=1
Type your email address and name in the appropriate box and
click leave the list.
----------------------------------------------------------------------