Jorgen dropped off a link to a post at Read Write Web about Google’s announcement that it will launch its own eBook store in an open challenge to Amazon, Barnes and Noble and others. The new store will be called Google Editions and should open in June or July.
Under Google’s plan, the net search giant will let people purchase digital copies of books found through its Google book search service while offering participating eBook retailers the option to sell Google Editions on their own sites–and keep the majority of the revenue. Google is already using the ePub standard and will offer 500,000 titles for reading on laptop, phone or eBook Reader. All this as Google continues to struggle for the right to distribute out-of-print books.
This is an interesting development in the eBook Revolution that you can read more about here at ars technica. Where Google Editions is ahead of the competition is their offer of eBook titles untethered to a specific device. Their eBooks will be “device-agnostic” for reading on any device or computer.
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