"Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection. Until now, Google had insisted that readers remain connected to Google while they read any public domain books online. Why the change in policy? According to Adam M. Smith, product manager for Google Book Search, It stemmed from listening to users and our library partners. Competition may have had some influence, however, both from the downloading policies of the Open Content Alliance and, now, from Googles own library partners. For example, the University of Michiganone of Google Book Searchs most generous and activist library partnershas begun releasing MBooks to the open Web, as well as to its campus users. The MBooks collection currently includes hundreds of thousands of books Google has digitized from the University of Michigans library collection. The MBooks offer different features than the versions Google Book Search supplies directly. It also includes in-copyright books, though only to produce individual book indexing...." - From Peter Suber's blog. Friends: Indian and other developing university libraries may follow the Michigan University Library and digitize all the books in their collections and make them available free on the web. Subbiah Arunachalam ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com