marcello said:
>   Why do you require ethical behaviour from
>   Google and not from those other publishers?

it's folly to try to "require ethical behaviour"
from _anyone_ in the publishing industry...

but nobody's doing any "unethical" anyway...

as i pointed out just now, the copyright issue has
absolutely no bearing on viewability of any pages.

if you think google should display the pages of a
public-domain title without any restrictions, then
all you need to do is submit it to their program...

heck, the first book i would submit would be
"books and culture", the public-domain title
that google made available as its first example.

you can see my reworking of this title right now:
>   http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/mabie/mabie.html
>   http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/mabie/mabiep001.html

and when i submitted my .pdf to their program,
i would even leave in the "google print" stamp
that they put on each page, just as a little joke...

these scans actually came from "google library",
now known as "google book search", and not the
"google print" program, which is the one geared
towards commercial publishers, but google was
a little casual with their project-names early on.
and now i don't think anyone is very clear about
where one program ends and another begins,
not even google...

but i just looked, and the program is indeed free:
>   http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/publisher.html

so if you want unfettered titles in the program,
the only thing you need to do is take action...

by the way, here's my mabie example for displaying a scan-book:
>   http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/mabie/mabied002003.html

readers will find my interface more pleasant than the google one:
>   http://books.google.com/books?id=yGZZXIrbUKQC&pg=PA5


>   They didn't even proof-read the text,
>   or they would have noticed those errors.

this is so funny it's not even funny...        :+)

-bowerbird

p.s.  yes, "monday morning quarterback" _is_ late, but it's coming...