Next year, Amazon is rolling out a new service called Pages. With it, you can purchase portions of a book for online viewing down to the page level. The cost for most books is expected to be a few cents per page.

Another program, Amazon Upgrade, will offer full online access when a traditional text is purchased. (Not sure how they accomplish that part, technically-speaking. Include an easy-to-publish key in the book?) Under this program, book owners will be able to access the full text online for a small additional fee. The article example is a $20 book would cost an extra $2 to view online.

I wonder, is this a project meant to appease the publishers who are in an uproar over the Google Print mess?

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday November 04, 2005 at 10:49 AM
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