Bezos' Amazon.com To Sell Books By The Page

Bezos' Amazon.com To Sell Books By The Page - Forbes.com: "Amazon Pages will dole out the data in increments--by chapter, section or even a single page. Thus, one needn't buy an entire book--although that option will exist, too--if all one desires is, say, a recipe or other chunk of how-to info. One wistfully imagines the racier excerpts of 'art' novels might be a draw, as well.

Amazon Upgrade, the slightly less amazing stepsister of Amazon Pages, furnishes Web access to a book already purchased. A company statement offers a serving suggestion: A programmer buying a guide to Sun Microsystems' (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) Java could then access the presumably massive tome from elsewhere--perhaps at a client site."