Google is inviting US and UK publishers to sell online access to their copyright texts through its book search site.
Right now, Google Book Search users can view free snippets of copyright books catalogued by its service but cannot read entire books online. Links take them to booksellers on the web.
The new offering would allow people to sign in and purchase immediate, browser-based access to books. Purchasers would not, however, be allowed to save a copy of the book to their computer or to otherwise copy pages from the book.
Google Books is on the way. And if Google can wind their way successfully through the maze of copyright issues and cases that they face with their Google books project, they may have a future winner on their hands. It may even give them a holy grail of diversified revenues - away from ad revenues alone.
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