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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
So are all of these public domain books?
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Yup but any minute now Google might launch commercial books as well according to the Google Book Settlement
http://books.google.com/booksrightsholders/
As you can see on
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/ they have an option to filter by "Free books", which obviously means it'll soon also have books that are either part of a new unlimited Google book subscription, I'm guessing $10 per month could do it for an unlimited access to a whole bunch of books, newspapers and magazines. Or it could be pay-per-donload books as well. It'll all be up to the copyright owner to opt-in or opt-out any of those monetization plans, until Obama launches an Art tax plan which will allow Google to provide full open access to all content even commercial content with only an opt-out option for copyright holders. Though opting-out being available for free online thus getting money through the art tax will be pretty much pointless.
Amazon should provide a full access to Google books on their Kindles. If Amazon wants to charge for bandwidth used on free stuff, they can charge per megabyte when people watch or download books and other stuff from outside of the Kindle store.