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The Web browser will launch the service before the end of the year in the United States, after overcoming a series of technical and legal obstacles, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal.



The platform for selling eBooks Google Editions will be released before the end of the year in the U.S. and in the first quarter of 2011 in other countries, according to a company source quoted by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.

As confirmed by the director of product management for the company, Scott Dougall, the American newspaper, the opening of the digital library of Internet giant, hampered by technical and legal problems for months, finally taking place in the coming weeks.

"Given the complexity of this project, we did not want to release anything that was not complete," said Dougall.

The newspaper says the company has succeeded in eliminating a number of technical and legal obstacles. However, Editions Unlike competitors such as Amazon or Apple pioneered applying an open platform to different readers on the market.

In a file photo, a few bags with the logo of Google during a press conference the company in Hamburg, Germany. The service will be launched in the U.S. Editions in 2010, and in the first quarter of 2011 in other paísesFoto: AFP

Currently, the Digital Editions reader is forced completely to use a particular device, such is the case of the iPad. In contrast, Google offers a kind of virtual library on the Internet that the user can go to your e-book device, without any distinction in particular with some special mark.

The books will sell not just Google, but other stores. At the beginning the Internet company will offer several hundreds of thousands of titles and free several millions whose copyrights have been prescribed.

Industry experts told the newspaper they believe the company will soon become a heavyweight in the market. The head of the publisher HarperCollins, Brian Murray, believes that the ability to access eBooks from any reader and is a great advantage.

The platform is based on Google's controversial plans to scan in the Google Books service all existing works in the world that can be searched on the internet. Scanning resistance generated by authors, publishers, retailers and governments, and finally lapsed agreement between the company and the publishing industry to pay U.S. $ 125 million in rights.