The future of textbook publishing

Google have done it again. Google Blog Search is one recent boon. Google Scholar allows us, as the slogan says, to "stand on the shoulders of giants." And Google Earth gives us all free access to aerial views of almost anywhere on earth. Bloggers have used it for example to see whether or not Mayor Ray Nagin had buses to use to evacuate the New Orleans Superdome (he did).
Google Earth Hacks allow you to see:

• the area affected by Saturday's South Asian Quake; and
• the stages of the Tour de France ;

And I've used it to check out:

• what Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesien West looks like from the air; and
  
• where I used to live, work and play football in London.
  

AND NOW: Google have produced the face of the future of textbook publishing, Google Print. [Hat tip Stephen Hicks]. Whole books; online; searchable!! Some treats that I've found already (well I think they're treats anyway):

• Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics, by P J O'Rourke
  
• The Key to the Name of the Rose, to help you understand just what the hell Umberto Eco was on about in his great novel;
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and the Skyscraper, by Donald Hoffmann
• The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand , by David Kelley
• Aspects of Wagner, by Bryan Magee
• All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster..., by P J O'Rourke
• The Cambridge Companion to Hume, edited by David Fate Norton
• The Common Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America, by Stephen D Cox
• Abolition of Antitrust, edited by Gary Hull
• Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Thomas E Woods
• Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being, by Tibor Machan
• Five Television Plays, by David Mamet

Wow! This is a whole searchable library at your fingertips, and without the overdue fines. :-)