Lorraine raises an important point. Although I agree in theory, I believe that she under-estimates the "free advertising" value of these offers for look-ups. Very, very few people can afford to purchase a reference-type book without some sort of an idea what is in the book. If I needed to buy a cook-book on Mexican Food, I certainly wouldn't just order a cookbook without prior knowledge of its contents. The same applies to genealogical-type reference books. Recently I offered to do limited "look-ups" from 2 VA deed books that I purchased. I included the source information and gave the on-line URL of the book-seller's web-site. I received 22 requests for look-ups, 18 of which produced results for the requestor. Out of the 18, I got 4 replies thanking me for doing the look-up and adding that they had ordered at least one of the books. It is very, very possible that others checked out the web-site and perhaps ordered books, or will in the future. I'm not in advertising, and know little on the subject, but it seems like this is a wonderful source of "free advertising" that can produce sales. A list subscriber who offers look-ups in their book(s) is doing a very time-consuming favor for others; and I doubt very much that it is the cause of poor or reduced sales to the book-seller. Posting the entire book, or otherwise infringing on the copyright is a totally different matter. Sharyl