"Select. eChapters in an Instant" was created for business professionals who want to purchase single chapters of popular business manuals.McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading publisher of finance, business, management, and other professional books written by business leaders with much experience, came up with this scheme.The idea is to allow eBook reader owners the opportunity to purchase just single eBook chapters for their professional needs, specifically on topics related to business, investing, marketing, and the Six Sigma.The collection contains over 750 chapters from selected books.Although full ebooks and hard-copies will still be available for purchase, "Select. eChapters in an Instant" is aimed at those who want chunks of information contained in one chapter.The information will be easily searchable.The chapters can be downloaded at mhprofessional.Com/echapters, and are available to Kindle, Nook and iPhone owners.EBook chapter costs run from $6.95 to $9.95 which is ridiculously expensive.Most of the McGraw Hill Professional ebooks are priced about $30.00, and although the publisher claims it is to help professionals with ease in searching information, the motive is questionable.Buying per chapter can become costly, and obviously it would be cheaper to purchase the entire book.Additionally, a definite perk of an ereader is the ability to search for text, so buying per chapter sounds a bit hypocritical.Granted, chapter-by-chapter buying does make sense to a point when we talk about business and reference books, but hopefully publishers don't try this money-making ploy with other eBook genres.It wouldn't make sense to only read Act 5 of a Shakespeare play, or call it a day after reading the first chapter of "A Clockwork Orange".While buying eBook chapters is now a viable option for business professionals, is it a future trend for publishers to make more profit off the eBook market? The eBook niche is already headed into being an expensive past time with the publishers' new agency model.Hopefully, consumers won't see their favorite ebook, or the new best seller sold in separate chapters, and authors won't worry about their work being cut into tiny expensive pieces.
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