Google's Latest

Some of the latest hyperactivity from the Google brains include: acquiring Writely a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser. More info. Then there's the Google Calendar, which I'm still trying to understand if I can use it within a writer's website to alert readers of upcoming author events. Finally, Google gets into book sales:

Google intends to begin selling the full text of books indexed via its Google Book Search in the near future. In a new entry on the Google Book Search Help Center, the search giant outlines how publishers will be able to sell online access to the contents of their books.

Publishers' information at Google.

With online access, users who discover a book through Google Book Search will be able to pay for immediate access to its full contents. You decide if a book should be available, and you set the online access price. The book will be available to users only through their browser, and only when they've signed in with their personal account. Users cannot save a copy on their computer or copy pages from the book.

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