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Google to sell book content

The inevitable? The Bookseller reports [login required] on Google’s plans to sell access to book content.
The new initiative is to be launched first in the US and the UK. Details are not yet finalised but Google said the revenue of any online sales would be shared between Google and the publisher, with the publisher receiving [...]

Published: March 10, 2006. Read more →

Times Emit March 06

Silence of late has been due to London Book Fair and lots of travel as well as work; what follows is a list of link to all the stuff that distracted me inthe last week.
LBF:
Vicky Barnsley tells Alan Giles to sort out their website; and that Amazon is a bigger threat than Google;
Google books backlist [...]

Archived and unpublished article on Google Print from last summer

The impetus for posting this was Corey Doctorow’s article in BoingBoing
which proved that the story is not dead - and in some part gave me the confidence to post this. Read it.

Published: February 17, 2006. Read more →