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If you can't read the text: 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. 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. The initiatives are already setting off a tug of war among publishers and the potential vendors over who will do business with whom and how to split the proceeds. Random House, the biggest American publisher, proposed a micropayment model yest


TECHNOLOGY | November 4, 2005
Want 'War and Peace' Online? How About 20 Pages at a Time?
By EDWARD WYATT
Amazon.com and Google are developing systems to allow consumers to purchase online access to parts of books.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/04/technology/04publish.html?emc=eta1



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