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Originally Posted by =X=
Google is an Internet company and data mining company. This fits Google's business model. What's different here is they are now charging for books when usually their application and content is free.
I suspect their angle is add a good user experience.
I'd be interested if they added features such as adding dictionary support, trading ebooks, reselling ebooks, uploading personal content, etc..
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Trading eBooks I get, basically you're just swapping access rights with another user for something of (perceived?) equal value, but what do you mean by reselling?
I find the idea interesting, but I'm not sure how it would work. Do you sell your access rights to the book on to another user for the same price? If so, why not just buy it from store, thereby paying the author?
Or are you selling it for less? You take a loss, but you get some money back, or credit towards your next purchase/rental of the online book? But then, how does the cash get back to the author? Does that even matter? Very curious idea.