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Google to Launch Online Store to Deliver Electronic Books
16 Oct 2009
Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser.
This comes as a threat to burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon's Kindle.
Google would launch Google Editions in the first half of next year, initially offering about half a million e-books in partnership with publishers with whom it already cooperates where they have digital rights. Readers will be able to buy e-books either from Google directly or from other online stores such as Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com.
Google will host the e-books and make them searchable.
Google will share revenue with publishers, and also with online retailers in cases where readers buy Google-hosted books through a retailer's site. It already partners with publishers to make their physical books searchable and available for sale.
Readers will be able to access e-books they have bought through Google on any device including PCs, laptops, netbooks and smartphones like Apple's iPhone through their gmail account.
The device need not be connected in order to read the book, after it has been accessed once, and payment can be made to Google through its online payment processing system Google Checkout, which stores users' details in a personal account.
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