Today we're delighted to announce the availability of in-copyright book content in the Beta version of Live Search Books ! For hundreds of years books have been the repositories for the world’s most trusted, authoritative knowledge. But until recently, books have been invisible to the world’s search...

Several new enhancements of note from the Search team: Tomorrow we’re releasing the beta version of Live Search Books ( http://books.live.com ). Check out the user experience: very clean! With this initial release we’ve focused on making the reading experience as natural as possible. The U.S. beta launch...