[LINK] What does Google Books allow you to download?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Ok,

could you provide a link to an example of what you are talking about?

M
Graham Greenleaf wrote:
> Marghanita,
> 
> Not the point ... 'download' is very different from 'full view': you can 
> actually download and re-use a full copy. With 'full view' you can only 
> read one page at a time, and only then embedded within a non-removable 
> Google page. The difference between 'read only' and 'do whatever you 
> like' (except removing Google's watermark).
> 
> The question is how Google chooses, from all the books in the public 
> domain for which it provides 'full view' which ones it also allows 
> 'download'.
> 
> - Graham
> 
> 
> At 4:13 PM +1000 11/9/06, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
>> Graham Greenleaf wrote:
>>
>>> Linkers,
>>>
>>> As of early this month, Google Books allows downloading of image PDFs 
>>> of some books in the public domain. I can't figure out what policy 
>>> determines which such books you can download, and which you can only 
>>> view as 'Full view books'. But it is only a sub-set.
>>>
>>> Nothing on About Google Books explains this, and comments on the web 
>>> are all along the lines of  "Google Inc. plans to begin letting 
>>> consumers download and print free of charge classic novels and many 
>>> other, more obscure books that are in the public domain." - none 
>>> explain why some and not others.
>>>
>>> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> text below is 
>> from<http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/screenshots.html#fullview> 
>>
>>
>>> No Preview Available  |  Snippet View  |  Limited Preview  |  Full View
>>>
>>> No Preview Available
>>>
>>> Like a card catalog, you're able to see basic information about the 
>>> book. However, you'll also be able to know if your search term 
>>> appears anywhere in the book's text, even if it's not in the title or 
>>> index.
>>>
>>> Snippet View
>>>
>>> The Snippet View, like a card catalog, shows information about the 
>>> book plus a few snippets - a few sentences of your search term in 
>>> context.
>>>
>>> Limited Preview
>>>
>>> If the publisher or author has given us permission, users can see a 
>>> limited number of pages from the book. Full  View
>>>
>>> You can see books in the Full View if the book is out of copyright, 
>>> or if the publisher or author has asked to make the book fully 
>>> viewable. The Full View allows you to view any page from the book.
>>
>>
>> This book is worth a read and also available on google books...
>> at 
>> <http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0521534267&id=EGwWmEjL6hoC&pg=PA3&lpg=PR7&vq=one+tell&sig=9Na51SsU_kEJfqHjbIfJ3qlhGWI> 
>>
>>
>>> Corporate Collapse: Accounting, Regulatory and Ethical Failure
>>> By Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean, Kyle Oliver
>>
>> ....
>>
>>> Page displayed by permission.
>>> Published by Cambridge University Press
>>
>>
>> M
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>> Ramin Communications
>> http://www.ramin.com.au
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>> Email: marghanita at ramin.com.au
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