A preview

A beta-version of Google Print is availble as of today. So far, it's limited to public-domain texts, according to this story.

However....

The two books I looked up (Jurgen, by Cabell, and The King in Yellow, by Robert Chambers) showed up in recent reprint editions, complete with introductions and cover art which could still be under copyright. Seems to me that, rightly or wrongly, this might raise some intellectual property issues. Perhaps they should be scanning the original editions instead?