Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 3, 2007 @07:17PM from the online-is-the-best-line dept.

eldavojohn writes "Random House & HarperCollins have agreed to allow book browsing and searching on all their books. According to the article, 'Book publishers are to trying to update their businesses as more young readers consume media via the Web, a trend that already has affected the music, movie and newspaper industries.' I am definitely looking forward to more publishers following suit. It's not that far of a stretch to imagine a person searching for a book, finding something else and then buying both books."

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Not that it has to be Google but by pembo13 · 2007-03-03 21:02 · Score: 2, Interesting

Why didn't they go through a single company/entity that has a track record of reliable search? Each to their own isn't really going to help. Unlike music, books can be considered physical things, and many people, myself included do _not_ like reading books online. If I like a book for a partiuclar topic, I will buy it.

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