May 25, 2013

Ebook Market - News


Google Editions E-Reader Service to be launched in US by the Year End

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Google Editions will launch in the US this year, with international launches to follow soon after in. Dubbed Google Editions, the new venture will take a different approach to book selling than most of its competitors, including Amazon’s Kindle or Apple’s iBookstore. Instead of relying on a single, centralized store, Google will let users buy [...]

Steve Jobs Said Apple iPad Caught 22 Percent of Ebook Market

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Apple has just announced that the iPad has collected 22 percent of ebook sales since its launch and is about to get new features too. A PDF viewer is going to be thrown into the iBooks app later this month, and will be accompanied by new bookmarking and note-taking functionality. Then again, as Steve points [...]

Google Enters Ebook Market with Google Editions

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Google is set to launch its own online e-book store in 2010. Google Editions books will not be tied to a specific device, unlike rival e-book company Amazon. Analysts at the Yankee Group have predicted that the US ebook reader market is “about to catch fire sparking from $1.3bn (£0.86bn) in revenue in 2010 to [...]