{"id":7746,"date":"2011-01-13T16:53:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2011-01-13T16:56:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T21:56:57","slug":"is-google-getting-into-the-ebook-reader-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7746","title":{"rendered":"Is Google getting into the eBook Reader Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember not that long ago when Google finally launched its massive online catalogue of eBooks, <strong>Google Editions<\/strong> and then changed it to a store and called it <a title=\"Google Books\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Google Books<\/strong><\/a>? Well, Google launched this massive online eBook store to compete directly with eBook (and book) giant <strong>Amazon.com <\/strong>and others&#8230; and then things got really <em>quiet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Until now. <strong><a title=\"Google Gets into Hardware\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/01\/13\/why-google-acquired-ebook-technologies\/\" target=\"_self\">Mashable<\/a><\/strong> has a post on Google&#8217;s recent acquisition of <strong>eBook Technologies<\/strong>, a company that specializes in the distribution of eBooks and eBook Readers. Read the <a title=\"Google Gets into Hardware\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/01\/13\/why-google-acquired-ebook-technologies\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Mashable article<\/strong><\/a>. You&#8217;ll see that further investigation shows Google appears to be in the process of creating its own intelligent reading devices based on <strong>eBook Technologies&#8217;<\/strong> prototype<strong> ETI-1 eBook Reader<\/strong> first seen in the late <strong>1990s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Very interesting development&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember not that long ago when Google finally launched its massive online catalogue of eBooks, Google Editions and then changed it to a store and called it Google Books? Well, Google launched this massive online eBook store to compete directly with eBook (and book) giant Amazon.com and others&#8230; and then things got really quiet. Until &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7746\">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":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746"}],"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=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}