Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive, has been around for a couple of years now and is a really interesting project with the lofty goal of creating a webpage for every book ever published. Since it's a wiki, they're plugging along pretty well with over 20 million records.
Tuesday, they will be offering more than a million public domain and contemporary e-book titles. There are some titles in there that are still in copyright, but are no longer sold commercially, so this will be an interesting project to watch. No doubt legal challenges will unfold and Libraryland doesn't have Google's financial might to endure protracted litigation. However, libraries getting on board with testing the boundaries of copyright in a digital age certainly doesn't hinder Google's efforts in that arena. Strange bedfellows, maybe?
Open Library
Digital Lending Library (Internet Archive Announcement)
Libraries Have a Novel Idea (WSJ)
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