Google is in the last stages before placing the long-awaited service Google Editions of the company that will allow users to read at any time, digital books, writes the Wall Street Journal, quoted by Dnevnik daily.The initiative of the Internet giant was postponed for several months before that company management hoped to launch the service this summer. Product Director, Google announced that Google Editions will be released in the U.S. by the end of this year, and the rest of the world it will be available in the first quarter of 2011
In recent weeks, independent distributors of books and publishers began to sign agreements on copyright, and some even began to transfer e-books on Google. All this is a clear sign that the service will start soon.
Google Editions is an open system to distribute electronic books, which offers users to purchase a publication or directly from Google or from any bookstore, which the company has a contract.Purchased titles will be stored online library, which is attached to a user account on Google and it will be available from most mobile devices that have an Internet browser, which includes both PCs and laptops and tablets and smartphones.
This approach is different to the market leader for e-books Amazon.The company has 65% market share and digital editions can only be purchased from its online store and can only be read by electronic readers, the company’s Kindle or devices that have his software reminds Wall Street Journal.