The "iTunes of the publishing world"?

Saturday, November 5. 2005

The "iTunes of the publishing world"?

From yesterday's NY Times:

Want 'War and Peace' Online? How About 20 Pages at a Time?

In a race to become the iTunes of the publishing world, Amazon.com and Google are both developing systems to allow consumers to purchase online access to any page, section or chapter of a book. These programs would combine their already available systems of searching books online with a commercial component that could revolutionize the way that people read books.

What do you think of the new initiative of Amazon.com and Google to sell portions of books online? The idea is to do for books what Apple has done for music, allowing readers to buy and download parts of individual books for their own use through their computers rather than trek to a store or receive them by mail. Consumers could purchase a single recipe from a cookbook, for example, or a chapter on rebuilding a car engine from a repair manual.

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 17:08 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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I think that this idea is a good one. I could have access to say, certain chapters of a book that I would really like to read. I'm one who looks back and rereads the chapters of the book that I really like. Most of the books that I've read only have some interesting parts, especially manuals for PC installation, cookbooks, and the like.

#1 Wong PoKér Hu Online (Homepage) on 2005-11-13 20:59 (Reply)

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