11 September 2007

Books online and in digital format

Two pieces of news in eBook and digital book publishing, via paidcontent.org and reported by the New York Times: Amazon.com is launching an eBook device called The Kindle, in October, which will wirelessly connect to Amazon’s site. And Google plans to start charging users for full online access to the digital copies of some books in its Google Books database. Publishers will set the prices for their own books and share the revenue with Google. So far, Google has made only limited excerpts of copyrighted books available.

As the NYT states: "Two new offerings this fall are set to test whether consumers really want to replace a technology that has reliably served humankind for hundreds of years: the paper book." This consumer doesn't want to replace her current book-reading technology, but the NYT article is interesting in a theoretical kind of way, and will update you (sort of) on how Sony is doing with its e-reader.

11 Sep 2007 18:17:00 | Publishing

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