Digital Book Blog

Amazon.com is giving customers who have purchased a physical copy of a book the chance to go online and access the book digitally for an extra fee with Amazon Upgrade. Amazon Upgrade will allow customers to view and search every page of the book, add bookmarks, highlights and notes to the digital pages and copy text from the book and print pages. The publisher will set limits on the text that can be copied for each individual book.
Several authors were interviewed and many of them approved the idea of reaching so many readers yet were worried about copyright issues and being paid for their work. It was also said that the authors cannot see the disappearance of the physical book completely as people won't want to curl up with a good e-book.
Amazon Upgrade comes after the release of several e-book gadgets, such as the Sony Reader, which is priced at $350 and can hold around 80 books. Sony Connect eBooks store contains more than 10,000 titles available for download.