Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing

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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Re:If all books were accessible through Google Sea

[rhyder128k]

Oh come on, you know how these discussions go. Creative people will be able to make money through "some more imaginative model". You just need to get hip to the new way of doing things.

I mean, no one will take advantage of the situation and try to get away with not paying for things. Apparently, there was one guy - once - who started downloading instead of buying his music. But apart from that guy, people only download to see if they like the thing, and if they do, they buy it.

I wish people like you would wake up and get hip to the inevitable change that happening what with these "new models" that are coming along.

Besides, who do these musicians and writers think they are, *demanding* that I pay them money when I am merely doing what I want with my freedoms? They'll be taken care of, financially, "in some way".