{"id":5556,"date":"2010-05-05T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T14:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2010-05-05T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T14:56:24","slug":"google-opening-an-ebook-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5556","title":{"rendered":"Google Opening an eBook Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> dropped off a link to a post at\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Google Books Opens Store\" href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_editions_google_plans_to_launch_e-book_stor.php\" target=\"_self\">Read Write Web<\/a><\/strong> about Google&#8217;s announcement\u00c2\u00a0that it will launch its own eBook store in an open challenge to Amazon, Barnes and Noble and others. The new store will be called <strong>Google Editions<\/strong> and should open in June or July.<\/p>\n<p>Under Google&#8217;s plan, the net search giant will let people purchase digital copies of books found through its Google book search service\u00c2\u00a0while offering\u00c2\u00a0participating eBook retailers the option to sell Google Editions on their own sites&#8211;<em>and<\/em> keep the majority of the revenue. Google is already using the ePub standard and will offer<strong>\u00c2\u00a0500,000<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0titles for reading on laptop, phone or eBook Reader.\u00c2\u00a0 All this as Google continues to struggle for the right to distribute out-of-print books.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting development in the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> that you can read more about here at <strong><a title=\"Google eBook Store On the Way\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/news\/2010\/05\/google-to-begin-peddling-e-books-this-summer.ars\" target=\"_self\">ars technica<\/a><\/strong>. Where <strong>Google Editions<\/strong> is ahead of the competition is their offer\u00c2\u00a0of eBook titles <em>untethered<\/em> to a specific device. Their eBooks will be &#8220;<strong><em>device-agnostic<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; for reading on any device or computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorgen dropped off a link to a post at\u00c2\u00a0Read Write Web about Google&#8217;s announcement\u00c2\u00a0that 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&#8217;s plan, the net search giant will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5556\">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":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556"}],"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=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5563,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}