Buying books one page at a time.Trying to do for books what itunes has done for music, Amazon and Google are both developing systems to allow users to buy and download any page, section, or chapter of a book. But there is already controversy among publishers, authors, and online vendors about the idea--and how to split the proceeds. Trade groups representing authors and publishers say Google has violated copyright laws by making digital copies of books from Libraries available online. But if copies of older books, long absent from bookstores, start producing revenue for authors and publishers, they might drop some of their objections. News & Trends was reported by Alan Cowell Alan S. Cowell (born March 16, 1947) is a British journalist who was the London bureau chief of The New York Times until July 13, 2007. Cowell began his journalism career as a reporter for Reuters[1]. , Monica Davey, Sarah Lyall Sarah Lambert Lyall is an American-born journalist who writes for The New York Times. Lyall is a graduate of Philips Exeter Academy, class of 1981[1] and of Yale University. , Abigail Sullivan Moore, John Noble Wilford, and Edward Wyatt of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times; Suzanne Bilyeu and Elizabeth Mayer Elizabeth Mayer (1884 - 1970), German-born American translator and editor, closely associated with W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and other writers and musicians. In the 1940s her homes in Long Island and New York served as an artistic salon for many emigré writers. |
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