Saturday 12 December 2009

Google plan to move into eBook sales

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Search giant Google, which is making forays into the book world, would happily sell books to readers who own Kindles or other e-readers, said Google Books engineering director Dan Clancy on Friday.

Google, which plans to launch Google Editions next year with something like half a million titles, will be selling titles to be read on laptops, netbooks or any device that can reach the Internet.

That leaves out the owners of Amazon's Kindle, but it wouldn't have to, Clancy told Reuters

If Amazon allowed Kindle users to buy from Google Editions it would be easy for the two companies to set up the sales, Clancy said.

"It's not that hard. Google Editions will support any reader device," he added.

Amazon says that it has more than 360,000 books, newspapers, magazines and blogs available for the Kindle.

Another e-reader, Barnes & Noble's Nook, which is currently sold out, will have access to Google's public domain books.

1 comment:

Charles Gramlich said...

That ebook pie may be getting bigger, but it's getting sliced pretty thin with deals like this.

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