new books electronic version

new books electronic version

Google announced that starting this year to sell new books in electronic format.











U.S. Internet giant Google said it will sell this year from new books in electronic format, which could affect the Internet retailer Amazon, the market leader with its Kindle e-book.

"By the end of the year we hope to offer our publishing partners an additional means to sell their books," said a Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said in a statement. We allow them to "return their books available for purchase from any device that has Internet access," he added.

The spokesman gave no details about the group project, but according to the New York Times is a controversial project in place of digitizing works program launched by Google.

According to the newspaper, this bill would allow publishers to sell their titles directly through the Internet, users could access through any device, including cell phones, unlike the unique support of the electronic book Kindle.

The group, which wants to return available on the internet all works available in the world, and scanned for Google Books million books, through partnerships with libraries. But the project is controversial because it also includes works protected by copyright.









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Sources:

http://www.observa.com.uy/ciencia/nota.aspx?id=80552

http://www.e-laws.com.ar/2007/12/18/direccion-de-las-oficinas-y-telefonos-de-google-en-argentina/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/technology/internet/01google.html?scp=2&sq=Google&st=cse