The New York Times reported yesterday that Google plans to start charging users for full online access to the digital copies of some books in its database, according to people with knowledge of its plans. Publishers will set the prices for their own books and share the revenue with Google. Up until now, Google has only been able to allow full ...

if:book has just highlighted a new offering from Google - in the Official Google Reader Blog there is an announcement for Google Gears - a browser plug-in that allows off-line reading. By which it means it will - when prompted - download your latest 2,000 items so that you can read or re-read them offline... on a flight, if you will. Thus bringing ...