The goal of the project is to unlock the wealth of information that is offline and bring it online, … this project will nonetheless take many years.

Any researcher or student, whether they’re in New York or New Delhi can now research and learn from these books that previously were only available in a library.

We prefer to work with the publisher for in-copyright material, … would never show a full page without the right from a copyright holder.

Our goal is to make these public domain books and the knowledge within them accessible to the world,

We are not announcing a policy change,

We believe what we’re doing is fully consistent with copyright law.

We’re demonstrating how the web can help to distribute all kinds of content that may not have otherwise been available.

Both companies believe open standards are critical to provide rapid growth in digital entertainment.