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September 07, 2007, 11:29 AM ET
A Busy Fall for E-Books
If e-books are ever going to catch on with a broader audience, this fall might be a good time for them to start winning people over. As The New York Times points out, a pair of high-profile digital-book projects will test the public’s willingness to swap hardbound volumes for downloadable files.
Until now, Google’s ambitious book-scanning project has made only excerpts available for books under copyright. But soon the search engine will start charging users for unfettered online access to some of the digital texts it has collected.
And in the meantime, Amazon is planning on wading into the market for e-book readers. In October the online retailer will release the Kindle, a reader that will wirelessly connect to Amazon’s own e-book store. The Kindle won’t need to hooked up to a computer to download books, but will its price tag — expected to be between $400 and $500 — scare people off? And will professors take a chance on the device, even though most e-book readers have received middling reviews? —Brock Read
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