Free Books

I'm with you as far as selecting books but then I can't find "Free Google e-books".

Left hand side there is a frame with a menu. About half way down there is a section in black/bold type that says "Any Books", third item under that is Free Google eBooks.

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Nope. E.g. enter "Midland Railway" than click "More" in the left hand menu then click "Books". Nothing that says "any books", Nearest is "any document" with links for "books" or "magazines". No free e-books.

I suspect it's a copyright issue. This is a UK group.

MBQ

sage

OK, just go to

MBQ

OK, just go to

MBQ

Thank you.

Do you get the option of "Free only" after you do a search?

If so, then it's just a case of Google UK being set up a bit different.

No, but I'm only seeing free books.

My guess is different copyright laws.

Actually if you go to the google ebookstore you get

ebooks from top authors. In the meantime, you can still browse millions of free and public domain Google eBooks and read them effortlessly across your devices.Learn more

Which I think explains it? But with books like

AH - I can look at a few pages of the book, but not the middle ... I scanned the first few pages and then went to the index which are all visible. But they do include the page with the copyright notice! Just ignoring it's content :)

Correction ... it does look like

Lester,

I think you have misunderstood. The copyright of D&C is recognised, and this is a limited preview of the first couple of chapters shown here with their consent.

This is quite a normal situation, at least for those publishers who are sufficiently on the ball to realise this is a good way of encouraging buyers. In a physical bookshop you can look at all the book, but not take it away (well, not legally!); this way gets part-way to this without actually giving the book away.

David

Graham was saying he was seeing only 'free books' which is the case for UK google ebook users. We can't buy books on-line - Hence the initial post. But I was sort of surprised that I COULD see quite a lot of of a more current book. I though they had limited it to just the first few pages and the index ... but there are actually quite a few pages visible of many 'non-free' books. Once you manage to search for them.

Even Amazon sometimes shows a dozen or so pages, if the publisher will agree to it.

David

Says "Limited Preview" for that in the US. They have made deals with some publishers and may limit titles by country.