Random House, one of the largest book publishers in U.S., has devised its digital book/scanning strategy, unveiled the same day as Amazon.com announced its digital book plans (read the post below). It will negotiate separate agreements with online booksellers, search engines, entertainment portals and others to offer the contents of its books to consumers for online viewing on a pay-per-page basis.
Book Standard: The publisher will charge websites four cents per page for fiction and narrative nonfiction (a 350-page book would cost $14, for example), and allow vendors to determine their own pricing schemes. Other types of content–cookbooks, for example–could cost significantly more. Websites will be responsible for tracking page views and collecting payments from readers, as well as for taking measures to protect against digital piracy. Authors will be allowed to opt out of the “pay-per-page-view” program.
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