Google to Launch Digital Books Early this Summer

[JMcEntegart]

Google has said it plans to be in the ebook business by late June or early July.

Google to Launch Digital Books Early this Summer : Read more

 

[babybeluga]

I max out my reading abilities on Tom's...

 

[JMcEntegart]

[citation][nom]babybeluga[/nom]I max out my reading abilities on Tom's...[/citation]

Worthy cause.

 

[djtronika]

will it be beta for 4 years?

 

[haunted one]

I think it's only a matter of time before Google overpowers Apple's app database.

 

[tsk_cable]

WSJ Weekly Shonen Jump
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[ksampanna]

But aren't almost all of them already available freely ol?

 

[mikeadelic]

[citation][nom]djtronika[/nom]will it be beta for 4 years?[/citation]

yup, with a big fat smirk while it eats away at iBook sales.

 

[Dirtman73]

[citation][nom]Mikeadelic[/nom]yup, with a big fat smirk while it eats away at iBook sales.[/citation]

My god, it's like choosing between the lesser of two evils.

 

[Dirtman73]

Google better improve the quality of their digital books. From what I've seen so far, the majority of what they offer is just digitized photocopies of the original books. Project Gutenberg does it much better.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Starting to sound interesting. I'm just having a bit of difficulty making the change from paperback to digital.

 

[babybeluga]

[citation][nom]JMcEntegart[/nom]Worthy cause.[/citation]

I like to think I'm pretty righteous.

...or something like that.

 

[Dirtman73]

[citation][nom]JohnnyLucky[/nom]Starting to sound interesting. I'm just having a bit of difficulty making the change from paperback to digital.[/citation]

I bought a nook a month ago, and I'm already used to it. I tried reading a real book last night, and it felt awkward. Don't know if that's good or bad .

 

[2zao]

GOOGLE is smart by not wanting to limit its market to one platform...

UNLIKE Apple and many other companies who try so hard to keep all of their content proprietary

 

[gm0n3y]

They had better all be DRM free. I have a feeling that they'll be using the 'epub' standard, which despite being 'free and open' supports DRM:

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB