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HP, Amazon to sell paperback versions of e-books
Some of the technology industry's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.
The Associated Press
Some of the technology industry's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.
Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's top seller of personal computers and printers, is teaming up with online retailer Amazon.com Inc. to join Internet search leader Google Inc. as the latest entrants in the quirky new market of re-creating digital books as paperbacks.
The concept represents a different type of book recycling, as digital copies created from print get a second life as paperbacks.
The HP program offers to publish paperback versions of about 500,000 digital books scanned from the University of Michigan's library. The paperback copies can be ordered through Amazon.com and a few other retailers.
(This version CORRECTS to reflect HP is not trying to compete against Google in on-demand books.)
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