Google Library Project

The Google Library Project aim is simple: make it easier to find relevant books. Google hope to guide more users to books - specifically books they might not be able to find any other way – all while carefully respecting authors´ and publishers´ copyrights. Google's ultimate goal is to work with publishers and libraries to create a comprehensive, searchable, virtual card catalog of all books in all languages that helps users discover new books and publishers find new readers.

But making copies can also be a problem. One big hurdle for the universal Internet library is copyright.  Here is how Google will handle the books: If it is a public domain books, when Google scan a book from a library that is in the public domain, you can view the entire page as well as read through the entire book. But if the library books still in copyright, For books that we have scanned from a library which are still in copyright, you will only be able to view the bibliographic information and a few short sentences of text around your search term.