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Google books has announced that they are going to accept and distribute creative commons books via their library:

Today, we’re launching an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they’ve made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to download, use, and share their work via Google Books.

Creative Commons licenses make it easier for authors and publishers to tell readers whether and how they can use copyrighted books. You can grant your readers the right to share the work or to modify and remix it. You can decide whether commercial use is okay. There’s even an option to dedicate your book to the public domain.

Read the entire announcement at Inside Google Books.

Among the initial list of the uploads that Google noted was Doctorow’s Little Brother, one of the finalists for the Hugo award.

The announcement is great news for writers who want a broader distribution of their work.