Wired News: The Great Library of Amazonia

An ingenious attempt to illuminate the dark region of books is under way at Amazon.com. Over the past spring and summer, the company created an unrivaled digital archive of more than 120,000 books. The goal is to quickly add most of Amazon's multimillion-title catalog. The entire collection, which went live Oct. 23, is searchable, and every page is viewable.

This month's Wired has an article about Amazon's book search database. Lot's of interesting possibilites, but I understand that cook book authors aren't too thrilled...