{"id":7405,"date":"2010-12-07T10:47:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2010-12-07T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:47:39","slug":"early-google-editions-review-at-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7405","title":{"rendered":"Early Google Editions Review at CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google <\/strong>has already said that its new eBook store <a title=\"Google eBook Store (Google Editions)\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/ebooks\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Google Editions<\/strong><\/a> would take some time to roll out, but it doesn&#8217;t hurt to get an early peek at it. <strong>CNN <\/strong>has a story on it <a title=\"Google Editions Reviewed...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/web\/12\/06\/google.ebooks\/index.html?hpt=Sbin\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. Up to now, the biggest complaints from eBook adopters have been about DRM and proprietary formats used by Amazon&#8217;s Kindle and other industry leaders, but I&#8217;m not sure that Google Editions&#8217; &#8216;cloud-based&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the consumer will have the final say.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting note: Here&#8217;s a <a title=\"Google Edition and the eBook Readers that read them\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/digitalpublishing\/supported-devices\" target=\"_self\"><strong>link<\/strong><\/a> to a list of <strong>eBook Readers<\/strong> that will &#8216;read&#8217; <strong>Google Editions eBooks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has already said that its new eBook store Google Editions would take some time to roll out, but it doesn&#8217;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&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7405\">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":[3,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405"}],"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=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}