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Google prepares to launch its own digital bookstore this summer
Since everyone and their mother is in the e-book business now, it makes sense that Google would jump in with its own digital book offering. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google's bookstore could go live as early as next month. The service, called Google Editions, plans to make its books compatible with as many operating systems and devices as possible. There's definitely a niche for an open bookstore, with Amazon focusing on its own Kindle software and hardware and Apple pushing the iPad. To make Google Editions a success, Google just needs to finalize deals with publishers and make sure it can compete with existing bookstores when it comes to selection and pricing. Publishers say this represents a test of whether e-books will save the book business once they're searchable, instant, and platform-independent.
What do you think? Should Amazon and Apple be worried?
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Subscribe to commentsMark BMay 5th 2010 10:37AM
Unless Google does something really different (like come out with an e-book reader for that can take on the iPad and Kindle or an "all you can eat" online viewing subscription plan), I think Google's just going to be another player in the game.
Then again, they have been building up a niche library of rare / unusual books for the past few years...hmmm...
ThrushMay 7th 2010 12:59PM
Im interested to see if Google releases a device. I was planning on buying my first Kindle this summer and I'll be disappointed if 3 months after I get it, a better option is released.