Google, who acquired the rights to all out-of-print books in a class action settlement a while back, has now entered the e-book publishing marketplace, http://books.google.com/ebooks. Scroll about halfway down the home page to locate free books. Seven pages of books provide a wide selection of classics you may have read in print.
Since my books, Behind These Mountains, vol. 1, 2 and 3 are out-of-print Google also was awarded the right to digitize them and make them available to the public. I don't know whether the details of the settlement also gave them permission to e-publish the books and offer them free to the public as they have with these classics. However, I have republished the series, so the 2nd Edition is now in-print. Digital copies can be read online at http://www.behindthesemountains.com/.
The good news is, the e-books Google publishes can be read on just about any electronic device you own, http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/overview.html.
Since my books are regional history books about the sparsely populated area of the Cabinet Mountains where the Clark Fork River flows in northwestern Montana I'd be surprised if Google ever would have digitized and make them available. But the books are no longer in the out-of-print category.
Starte enjoying them today at http://www.behindthesemountains.com/.
Since my books, Behind These Mountains, vol. 1, 2 and 3 are out-of-print Google also was awarded the right to digitize them and make them available to the public. I don't know whether the details of the settlement also gave them permission to e-publish the books and offer them free to the public as they have with these classics. However, I have republished the series, so the 2nd Edition is now in-print. Digital copies can be read online at http://www.behindthesemountains.com/.
The good news is, the e-books Google publishes can be read on just about any electronic device you own, http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/overview.html.
Since my books are regional history books about the sparsely populated area of the Cabinet Mountains where the Clark Fork River flows in northwestern Montana I'd be surprised if Google ever would have digitized and make them available. But the books are no longer in the out-of-print category.
Starte enjoying them today at http://www.behindthesemountains.com/.
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