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According to Internetnews.com’s Susan Kuchinskas, a patent application by Google may indicate its plans for opening “new revenue streams to publishers of print, CD and DVD media, while broadening its own revenue base.” The article implies the patent points to something akin to Amazon’s search inside the book that will index magazines and other potential pay-per-view publishing partners. Is this intent telegraphed by the recent launch of scholar.google.com search that indexes academic and professional journals? I’m not sure.