22 May
2006
22 May
'06
8:32 p.m.
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.
Even that number is a misinterpretation. There's at the moment 92000 pre-1923 books available from Google Print. The 50.000 that google has made fully downloadable have a clear pre-1923 copyright statement; the 42.000 don't have a clearcut copyright statement and thus Google only gives the snippet option. I've never read numbers about the post-1923 books available, Bruce doesn't look for those in his various searches, as far as I am aware. Frank