23 May
2006
23 May
'06
2:11 a.m.
Bowerbird@aol.com writes:
And the latest estimated I have received show that Google's total number of books has just recently passed 50,000
i do believe you misread that. 50,000 public-domain titles, with another 42,000 under copyright, for a total of 92,000.
My searching found 50,000 public domain titles available as complete books, and another 42,000 that should have been available as complete books because they were published prior to 1923, but were only visible in snippet view. I have no idea how many books Google scanned published after 1922 which are probably PD because the copyright was apparently not renewed, nor the number of books scanned even though the book is still under copyright.