This is when playing well with others pays off. A story at Reviews of Electronics highlights the perils of proprietary formats. Google Editions titles are now available on pretty much every eBook Reader on the market other than Amazon’s Kindle.
While it hardly leaves Amazon out in the cold, since Kindle eBooks are available through Apps on most of the eBook Readers mentioned, it does mean that Amazon Kindle users won’t be able to take advantage of Google Edition’s mammoth library that contains hundreds of thousands of eBook titles for purchase and millions for free.
As the article suggests, it’s just a matter of time before Amazon works a deal with Google Editions.
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