COPYCENSE

“Amazon.com’s plan to sell individual pages from books will test whether the online retailer can do for publishing what Apple’s iTunes has done for the recording industry.

“It is a novel idea indeed, or at least little-seen since the days when the writings of Dickens and others were serialized, even if it’s difficult to imagine anyone wanting to buy a great literary works in snippets. I can’t even conceive of buying my coffee-table books — on art, architecture and top golf courses around the world — by the section.”

Bambi Francisco. Launching the ‘Mashup’ Book Genre. MarketWatch. Nov. 7, 2005.

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