Sony announces half a million public domain books for its E-Ink Reader
There’s plenty of free books on the internet. Current ones, too, and legally. Project Gutenberg has an extensive library of free, public domain (or merely out of copyright) works that are easily transferred and read on the reader. Sony’s gone and trumped all this by making a deal with Google whereas all the public domain books scanned as part of their controversial Google Book Search program – are now available for the Sony PRS 505 and 700 Readers. ...