A brief review of Google Print from Insider Reports in which Google's latest is compared to Project Gutenberg (Google’s A Librarian? You Betcha! Google Print Goes Live). Once again, fixed term copyright would seem to be the only real solution to the problem of being able to distribute anything out of copyright but not written before 1923. via Teleread, which has this to say:

Google Print is potentially an extremely useful service, especially if publishers understand this is a help, not a threat. Books in most cases will benefit if included. If a book is already in the database and metions a phrase of interest, you can find it lickety-split. The famous Google interface works great.