Digital book programs seem to be all the rage since a particularly large search engine company decided to put most all books online. Online retailer Amazon decided to offer an alternative to publishers that should sit well with them. They will SELL digital books.
Amazons A9 Launches OpenSearch
Claiming, “We want OpenSearch to do for search what RSS has done for content,” fledgling search engine and Amazon-owned A9 has launched OpenSearch, a technological bundle allowing content providers, like Murdok, to “publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication.”
Invasion of the Amazons
The last few months have witnessed a bloodbath in tech stocks coupled with a frantic re-definition of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is concerned).