more on Google book sales

What does it mean to sell online access to my book?

The Google Books Partner Program is developing tools for publishers to experiment with new and innovative ways to increase book revenue. The first of these tools allows you to sell online access to your book.

Once you set a price for your book, users who discover it through Google Book Search will be able to pay for access to its full contents. The book will only be available to the user once they’ve signed in with their personal account, and will only be available through their browser. Users will not be able to save a copy on their computer nor copy pages from the book.

from http://books.google.com/support/partner/bin/answer.py?answer=34596&hl=en_US
emphasis mine

via ArsTechnica - Google gets into book sales

Previously:
January 10, 2006  Google Book Store?