[FOM] Reprinting the classics

Sara L. Uckelman S.L.Uckelman at uvt.nl
Sat Oct 13 04:51:20 EDT 2012


On 10/11/2012 11:11 AM, Roger Bishop Jones wrote:
> Google books scans everything they can get their hands on,
> and makes them as available as is legal, including PDF
> downloads of books which are in the public domain or for
> which permission has been granted by the copyright owner.

The availability of googlebooks varies (sometimes drastically)
from country to country.  I wouldn't tout this as a reliable
way of making books generally available.

-Sara


-- 
Dr. Sara L. Uckelman
Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Tilburg University
http://lyrawww.uvt.nl/~sluckelman/


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