Search giant moves into the market, as Amazon preps new Kindle
vnunet.com, 02 Jun 2009
Google has announced plans to enter the electronic book sales market later this year, allowing publishers to sell e-books online for use on what the company termed "web-enabled devices".
The search giant has not yet launched a marketplace for e-books, but already maintains a catalogue of 500,000 public-domain titles. Google settled a long-running legal battle last year with publishers over its digitisation project.
The company inked a deal with Sony in March to offer the collection on the Sony Reader device.
Amazon, meanwhile, has officially set a release date for the newest version of its Kindle reader device. The company will begin shipping the $489 Kindle DX tablet to pre-order customers in the US on 10 June.
The Kindle DX was announced in March, and is aimed at readers of larger-format publications, such as magazines, newspapers and PDF text files. The company has yet to announce a UK release date.
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