Google venderá eBooks via Google Editions

Aproveitando todas as páginas scanneadas pelo Google Books e fechando acordo com editoras e autores o Google irá lançar o Google Editions para vender as versões online das publicações, estreando assim no mercado da Amazon e Apple, de venda de ebooks.


Google Editions Launching This Summer to Challenge Amazon, Apple - eWeek:

Google will begin selling electronic books online as early as June, vying with the likes of Amazon and Apple in the effort to make money from digital content.

Google will sell some of the 12 million-plus books its has scanned online through Google Editions, a Webstore geared to challenge online books offered through Amazon's Kindle e-reader and Apple's iPad tablet computer.

Amazon has sold more than 3 million Kindles to date, while Apple has shipped 1 million iPads through less than a month.

While those devices keep digital books tethered through digital rights management software, Google Editions aims to lets users read books from practically any desktop, laptop or mobile gadget that features a full Web browser.