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HarperCollins' New Program to Offer Book Content OnlineAccording to an Associated Press report, publisher HarperCollins announced yesterday the launch of a new program offering free access to the full texts of selected works. The pilot, a nonfiction book on business start-ups, currently appears on the author's homepage, http://www.BruceJudson.com, bordered on its left by a column of "Ads by Google." Amid ongoing controversy over the effects of making material available online, HarperCollins announced late last year that it was digitizing its own catalog, seemingly in reaction to Google's much-maligned Print Library Project. Since it announced its plans to scan and index copyrighted works for public access in December 2004, the Internet giant has been plagued with copyright lawsuits filed by the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers. One test of the new program will be whether ad sales offset lost sales, according to Brian Murray, group president of HarperCollins. The program's supporters believe that online access to books will also encourage those who begin reading online to purchase hard copies of texts. Questions, ideas, or in need of more information? Please contact Stacey Pusey at 302-295-8349. |
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