Google faces both Amazon and Sony in the market for e-books
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The search giant will launch next year Google Editions, which will buy and read eBooks using mobile devices.
Google Book selling books online since 2004, but only for download to the PC. In contrast, targets smarphones Editions, Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and new readers of books, but also work on computers, laptops and netbooks. All it requires is a web browser.
"The way in which the e-book market is evolving is to allow access from anywhere, both in terms of geographical accessibility as" the AFP news agency said Tom Turvey, associate program director of Google Book Search.
"Google Editions allows merchants to sell books to our partners, especially those who have not yet invested in a digital sales platform. We expect most customers to go to merchant partners and not Google, since we are a distributors of books, "Blatter said.
Through this program, Google will keep 55 per cent of earnings, which promises to deliver the form "most" from bookstores while the remaining 45% will be for publishers. Some 30,000 libraries have partnered with Google, of which over 9,000 are in Europe.
Shop Sony e-Book Store includes more than 100,000 e-books (more than one million free books provided by Google), while Amazon has some 300,000 titles for Kindle users can download the reader. Google Editions count in the first half of 2010 with a half million works.
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