Thursday, March 16, 2006
Google Partnering With Publishers To Sell Online Books:
"Google gave me the heads-up late Friday that a new feature allowing publishers to sell online versions of their books through Google Book Search was about to go live. Nothing was yet online when we talked, but that's since changed. A new help page, What does it mean to sell online access to my book?, explains that the program is the first in a series of revenue tools being rolled out for publishers.
The experiment will allow publishers to sell access to their books online, something Google hinted was coming back in November and January. Publishers set a price, then consumers can buy and read the book online. At the moment, the program supposedly will not allow copies of the book to be saved to a computer or pages to be printed ('copy pages') to be made. We'll see. So far, Google's existing protections limiting what users can see from books online have not been cracked, to my knowledge..."
Guess they are selling them really cheap? I would not want to have to read everythingonline.
"Google gave me the heads-up late Friday that a new feature allowing publishers to sell online versions of their books through Google Book Search was about to go live. Nothing was yet online when we talked, but that's since changed. A new help page, What does it mean to sell online access to my book?, explains that the program is the first in a series of revenue tools being rolled out for publishers.
The experiment will allow publishers to sell access to their books online, something Google hinted was coming back in November and January. Publishers set a price, then consumers can buy and read the book online. At the moment, the program supposedly will not allow copies of the book to be saved to a computer or pages to be printed ('copy pages') to be made. We'll see. So far, Google's existing protections limiting what users can see from books online have not been cracked, to my knowledge..."
Guess they are selling them really cheap? I would not want to have to read everythingonline.
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