Google to Start Selling E-Books By Early Summer

Google plans to start selling e-books by early this summer joining the battle between Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble, a representative told the WSJ.

Google has been discussing its vision for distributing books online for several years and for months has been evangelizing its new service, called Google Editions. The company is hoping to distinguish it from offerings from incumbents like Amazon by allowing users to access books from a broad range of websites using a broad array of devices. Amazon.com's digital book business is largely focused on its Kindle e-reader and Kindle software that runs on some other select hardware.

Chris Palma, Google Manager for Strategic-Partner Development made the announcement at a panel sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group and held at Random House's Manhattan office. The event was entitled, "The Book on Google: Is the Future of Publishing in the Cloud?"


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