Chad Clark's Open Journal : 2009-03-19

1) Google gives 500,000 free e-books to Sony Reader customers.

The Tech Herald article reads:

  [The] Reader device from Sony Corp. has this week received a timely boost
  to its appeal thanks to a massive content deal with online search giant
  Google Inc.
  
  Specifically, the content deal will result in Reader users being given
  access to around 500,000 published works, all of which no longer have
  copyright protection