{"id":3469,"date":"2009-10-16T09:39:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2009-10-16T09:41:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T14:41:37","slug":"google-editions-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"Google Editions in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More tough news for <strong>Amazon<\/strong>. Google\u00c2\u00a0will sell eBooks for any device through an online store called <strong><a title=\"Google Editions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews\/idUSLF59080720091015\" target=\"_self\">Google Editions<\/a><\/strong> that they plan to launch next year.<\/p>\n<p>The development announced in a release <strong><a title=\"Google Editions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews\/idUSLF59080720091015\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong> at <strong>Reuters <\/strong>is a nice change for Google&#8217;s otherwise complicated press life as they battle the many <strong><a title=\"Read about the Google Books Battle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3214\" target=\"_self\">challenges<\/a><\/strong> to <strong>Google Books<\/strong>. Google Editions will allow Google to start making money from one of its book ventures. (That also includes their controversial index of scanned books through library partnerships&#8230;<em>Google Books.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>As yet, they&#8217;re not interested in making their own eReading device, opting instead to sell eBooks from publisher catalogues for reading on the various devices already out there.<\/p>\n<p>Not such a nice change for industry leader Amazon&#8217;s Kindle that is still coping with a sudden influx of competing eBook Reading devices that are more and more relying on the open\u00c2\u00a0EPUB format. Amazon&#8217;s still trying\u00c2\u00a0to control things with its own (AZW) proprietary format.<\/p>\n<p>Research firm Forrester predicts 3 million eReaders will sell in the U.S. this year, up from a previous total of 1 million. They say it&#8217;s encouraged by lower prices, more content and improved distribution. (I seem to remember reading that somewhere before, <em>yah<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<p>Three words for Amazon: <strong>ADOPT EPUB NOW.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More tough news for Amazon. Google\u00c2\u00a0will sell eBooks for any device through an online store called Google Editions that they plan to launch next year. The development announced in a release here at Reuters is a nice change for Google&#8217;s otherwise complicated press life as they battle the many challenges to Google Books. Google Editions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3469\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}