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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. textbooks by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This would be a very useful service if textbooks were included. I, along with many other students, know the pain of buying a $120 textbook and only using the first 2 chapters, then selling it back to the book store for $20 and a Hershey's bar.

    Of course, this was before I figured out their racket and started buying international textbooks....