Nanowrimo. 3 days down. 4,999 words to go.

And thus, I begin my NaNoWriMo.

I now have one word.

"It's"

Oh, and my muse has been identified. He's a small grey rat with glasses, and an ink-stained tail. Pictures forthcoming, once I catch him and threatentalk him into this NaNoWriMo business.

NaNoWriMo 2005

Current word count: 1009. 49981 more to go. Yay!

Buying pages of books online?

http://news.com.com/Amazon,+Random+House+throw+book+at+Google/2100-1025_3-5931569.html

As Google put thousands of public domain books online Thursday, Amazon.com responded by announcing plans to allow people to read books on the Web.

Meanwhile, Random House, the world's largest publisher of trade books, said it had come up with a business model for allowing people to pay to view its books on the Internet.

Amazon's new "Amazon Pages" program will let people purchase online access to anywhere from a few pages of a book to an entire work. The e-commerce company also announced a program called "Amazon Upgrade" that will let customers pay extra to be able to access books electronically that they've had shipped to them in printed form.

...you know, now that I think about it, it might work. Apple's iTunes store has been highly successful. I think, some part because of the much lower cost, and the ability to chose select songs... and this would do the same for books. Although, the thing is, I wouldn't participate in it, like I don't buy songs off the iTunes music store, because I can get them elsewhere for even cheaper - similar to eBooks.

So, I bring to you, my first poll for a long while:
[Poll #604710]