Google has officially launched Google Print, a project to digitize print books and make the content available in Google’s search results.
To see what it looks like, run the search “book about blogs” The first result should have a book icon next to it and a list of digitized books available. Click on a title to see the text.
Because Google Print is intended only to give users a glimpse of a book so that they can determine if they would like to purchase it, there is no way to copy or print text. Also, once you’re on a book page, you can only ‘flip’ two pages forward and back.
To expand it’s collection, Google has invited publishers to submit books to be digitized. For more information, see Google Print program for Publishers.