Google has already said that its new eBook store Google Editions would take some time to roll out, but it doesn’t hurt to get an early peek at it. CNN has a story on it here. Up to now, the biggest complaints from eBook adopters have been about DRM and proprietary formats used by Amazon’s Kindle and other industry leaders, but I’m not sure that Google Editions’ ‘cloud-based’ reading is the answer. People want to own their eBooks, and being able to access them everywhere, on any reader as the cloud allows is not true ownership.
Again, the consumer will have the final say.
Interesting note: Here’s a link to a list of eBook Readers that will ‘read’ Google Editions eBooks.
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