Google after opening its online bookstore last month went to another step in competing with Amazone.com by acquiring eBook technologies, a company which is famous for making digital reading projects.
The Internet book store, which opened Monday on 6th December 2010 in the U.S., draws upon a portion of the 15 million printed books that Google has scanned into its computers during the past six years. About 4,000 publishers, including CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster Inc., Macmillan Random House Inc. and Pearson PLC’s Penguin Group, are also allowing Google to carry many of their recently released books in the new store. Thus this move would surely deliver richer reading experience on tablets, electronic readers and other portable devices.
The Google and eBook technologies claim that this acquisition will provide a first-class reading experience to the people whole around the world. The Google has been able to become a booming e-book market within a month in US, which was dominated by Amazon. Google eBookstore features the Mountain View, California-based company’s massive library of digitized works online at books.google.com.
The company said that the eBookstore would expand internationally next year and the digital books sold through the eBookstore can be read on the Sony Reader, the “Nook” from Barnes & Noble and other dedicated e-readers but not on the popular Kindle from Amazon.
However both companies have not disclosed the financial terms of acquisition so far.Google eBookstore features the Mountain View, California-based company’s massive library of digitized works online at books.google.com.
The company said that the eBookstore would expand internationally next year and the digital books sold through the eBookstore can be read on the Sony Reader, the “Nook” from Barnes & Noble and other dedicated e-readers but not on the popular Kindle from Amazon. However both companies have not disclosed the financial terms of acquisition so far.
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