The war on paper continues!  Yes, we can recycle it, yes we can make it from rocks, but why use it at all?  While high-res e-readers are promising to allow us to read digital text comfortably, content providers are revving up access to electronic books.

And, in this case, free books.  Sometime today, Google will begin providing full PDF downloads of public-domain books.  Though Google is currently only offering books with expired copyrights, the system does open the door to a pay-to-download service. 

We've been suspecting such an expansion for Google Book Search for a long time now, but we're excited to see this first step being made.  I'll update the post with a link once the service is up and running, so check back. 

 

Via BusinessWeek