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Amazon to Sell Books by Page, Display Books You Own

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shaky-ground dept.

Josuah writes "Forbes is reporting that Amazon plans to sell books by the page, so you could purchase only the excerpt you're interested in. What I found more interesting though was the mention of a program called Amazon Upgrade, which will allow you to view books you own from any web browser. Sounds awfully similar to the MP3.com case. I'm guessing Amazon Upgrade also means you need to purchase all your books from Amazon. Interesting value-add proposition."

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  1. Nothing to do with mp3.com by DeepRedux · · Score: 3, Informative
    This has nothing to do with mp3.com, because Amazon is getting permission from the copyright owners unlike mp3.com. From CNET:
    As with Amazon's existing "Search Inside the Book" feature, only books in the public domain or whose copyright holders have granted permission will be included in the new digital book programs, he [Jeff Bezos] said. That will help the company avoid the copyright concerns Google's project has sparked.
    This is more like iTunes than mp3.com.