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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------