Monday, June 01, 2009

Poised to Sell E-Books, Google Takes On Amazon - NYTimes.com

Interesting times – see the full article for more details. Perhaps Google will have to update its mission to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” … to anyone who can afford it.

Google appears to be throwing down the gauntlet in the e-book market.

In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google. The move would pit Google against Amazon.com, which is seeking to control the e-book market with the versions it sells for its Kindle reading device.

Poised to Sell E-Books, Google Takes On Amazon - NYTimes.com

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