Amazon's new chapter--digital books | Tech News on ZDNet: "Maybe it was just a matter of happenstance--though when it comes to Amazon.com and its always-precise CEO Jeff Bezos, very little gets left to chance.
But on the same day last week that Google put thousands of public domain books online, Amazon.com debuted programs that will let people read books on the Web.
In a sense, this is familiar ground for Amazon, which led the technology industry's move toward book digitization with its 'Search Inside the Book' feature two years ago. As its name suggests, that offering let people search the text inside books."
Steve's Commentary
If the new Google Print and these two new services from Amazon are any indication of how we will access books in the future, then I want to invest in some printer companies. Everyone will printing excerpts of these books if not entire copies. If only someone could sell an easy way to bind these prints in a professional manner at home.
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