Without its own brand-specific e-reader device or online platform, Google eBooks has relied on a variety of sources for catalog content. From its inception, it made digital versions of public domain titles available at minimal costs, as well as welcoming publishers’ back list titles, books that may have otherwise never seen the digital light of day. By starting slowly and … [Read more...] about Google eBooks Looking to Close the Gap with Amazon, B&N
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Is Google developing a new e-Reader?
In January Google purchased E-Book Technologies, a company that sells software used to operate digital reading devices, along with related publishing tools. Neither Google nor eBook said how much the search engine giant paid for the company. What the company had that Google primarily wanted was the patents it owned. Dmitriy Molchanov an analyst with the Yankee Group said … [Read more...] about Is Google developing a new e-Reader?