The arena of book publishing has now taken a step forward and that too into cyberspace as Random House and Harper Collins have made their decision to let readers and customers browse books online. And I personally feel that is great news for all of us.
Random House, said on Tuesday that through their new service called Insight, consumers will be able to search and browse through more than 5000 of its titles on the Internet. It includes writers like Danielle Steel and Norman Mailer. They will also be providing a tool which will allow the users to add material and information from titles to their personal pages on social networks like MySpace or to a dealer’s Web site.
The HarperCollins Publishers, whose authors include people like Michael Crichton, stated on Monday, that they are going to introduce a browse function that will enable their consumers entrench pages of books onto networking sites such as MySpace. These two companies are the only major publishers offering such services so far.
However, both companies are in a sense late to introduce online book searches. Retailer Amazon.com Inc. has way back allowed readers to look at book pages and Web search company Google Inc has been allowing this since 2005. It is already understandable, that as a large proportion of people are turning to internet trend, the publishers are trying their level best to update their businesses.
Via: CNN
