Is Google Getting Ready to Enter the EBook Market?
According to a report in the New York Times this morning, Google is getting ready to enter the eBook market by providing publishers with an infrastructure for direct-to-consumer sales. The Times reports that Google discussed this initiative with publishers at last weekend’s BookExpo in New York. According to the times, Google is mostly interested in creating an architecture that would enable publishers to do direct-to-consumer sales (with the checkout handled by Google Checkout, we assume), but there is also no reason to believe that this initiative could not include some kind of electronic store, maybe on top of Google’s controversial Google Books service. Sponsor Competition for Amazon Publishers will probably be happy to see more competition for Amazon, which, at $9.99, is holding the price for eBooks artificially low by subsidizing the price, and which uses the cheap price of books as a way to sell more of its Kindle eBook readers.
Read the whole article on ReadWriteWeb
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