Reading e-books from any Web-enabled device seen as broadening use of the technology to a wider market
E-books may have been a niche technology so far, but Google Inc.'s entry into the market could burst the online business wide open.
The giant search engine company wants to give publishers a way to sell online digital books through a partner program by the end of the year.
What may be most important in today's news is that Google wants to allow partner publishers to to make their books available for purchase from any Web-enabled device. That means a user could use any smartphone to download e-books, although some users of Amazon Inc.'s Kindle and the Sony Reader say smartphone screens are too small for prolonged reading.
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E-books may have been a niche technology so far, but Google Inc.'s entry into the market could burst the online business wide open.
The giant search engine company wants to give publishers a way to sell online digital books through a partner program by the end of the year.
What may be most important in today's news is that Google wants to allow partner publishers to to make their books available for purchase from any Web-enabled device. That means a user could use any smartphone to download e-books, although some users of Amazon Inc.'s Kindle and the Sony Reader say smartphone screens are too small for prolonged reading.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133750
