Google's books

I was reading about Google's new library in the early hours of this morning and discovered that their on line library of out of print books is only going to be available to people in America.

"We'll also be offering libraries, universities and other organizations the ability to purchase institutional subscriptions, which will give users access to the complete text of millions of titles (of out of print books) while compensating authors and publishers for the service. Students and researchers will have access to an electronic library that combines the collections of many of the top universities across the country. Public and university libraries in the US will also be able to offer terminals where readers can access the full text of out of print books for free".

They're still in the process of sorting this out for the US and have said that they hope to be able to have international agreements with countries all over the world.

Reminds me of a site accessed from Orange where you could only have full access to the music offered there if you lived in the US .. was to do with an agreement like this so didn't matter if you were an Orange customer or not.

I hope they're in the process of sorting out agreements all over the world too. Or will be soon.