Books by the Page
Submitted by jim on Fri, 11/04/2005 - 11:52
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Amazon to sell books by the page:
Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday previewed a service to sell just a few pages or chapters of a book—allowing one of the world's oldest media to be chopped up and customized like an album on iTunes.
Although he offered few details, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said Amazon customers soon would be able to buy digital snippets of books for as little as a few cents a page. That might come in handy for tourists planning a trip, chefs seeking recipes or students assigned one chapter in an expensive textbook.
Useful? I can envision cobbling together a custom cookbook, if nothing else.
Oooh.. this would be lovely for knitting patterns!!
You guys know about Google Print ? Those Google guys are getting muy ambitious.
So Jim, have you had a look at Google Print yet?
Yeah, it's very cool. I find I don't use it all that much though. When I need an answer to a question, I often just use "Google regular". I tend to consume books in their entirety, not piecemeal. Once Google starts integrating book search and web search, though...
It'll be useful for college textbooks too. It's quite often that you're told to buy a $50 textbook and then you look at the syllabus and see you'll only be reading chapter 3, grr...
Uh, yeah... a cookbook is about the only type of book I could see being useful in this way.
Cookbooks, travel guides, and Stephen King novels.
(=ducks!=)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs ;)