Google to Open Digital Bookstor
February 10th, 2011 | 
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Starting this summer, Google reportedly will start selling digital books through online bookstores which will open. Thus the latest CNN report quoted a company spokesman.
That would put Google in competition e-book market is now becoming popular. Kindle’s online bookstore Amazon.com jumped ahead to lead the market, but Barnes & Noble also catch up with the release of the e-reader Nook and Apple recently launched iBookstore for the iPad.
But with the new service, called Google Editions, Google does not set the service was only for PC tablets themselves. Unlike some competitors, Google is planning enables digital books to be read on many other devices. However, Google Editions, on the other hand, will not allow users to download digital books, but can only be accessed through a web browser and connect to the internet. And this is quite different from Amazon.com that forced publishers to package books with a specific format. Apple also embraces Epub industry standard, where its digital books can only be read on the Apple device or through Apple software.
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