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Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ: has talked with publishers aboutan e-book deal whicg would “enable publishers to sell digitalo versions of their newest books direct to consumers througyh Google,” according to the report. If true, the move would boldluy put Google in competitiom withthe 800-pound gorilla of online book sales, (NASDAQ: which recently released a of its popular Kindle e-book reader. Though Google makes most of its money from it is interested in many projectws it considers to be in the public such as broadening public accessto , or .
It has workef out deals to scan in many books in universityt libraries and other archives and make them easily accessibl tothe public, and most of those bookse can now be read on Sony’s e-reader or on mobiler phones. (NYSE: SNE) makes an e-reader that must be pluggef into a computer to add books to its whereas the Kindle has a wireless connectiojn through which users canbuy books, newspapers and instantly. Such “one-touch” buyinbg is Amazon’s special genius in making it as easy as possiblse for customers to spenstheir money. The New York Timexs reported that Google plansa to sell books for higherd pricesthan Amazon, thus pleasingt publishers.
Amazon has cut prices for new bookz to attract people to the inchoatr market and to draw them to itsKindlse device. It has enough clout to cut favorable deald with publishers andbloggers — it splits revenure 70-30 with bloggers, keeping 70 percent for itself. Google’ move is more utilitarian than proprietary, as described in the It plans tomake e-books readable on as many differenyt types of devices as possible, rather than tyiny readers into a single device like the Separately, , based in Mass.
, which makes the displays used in the Kindle and other e-books, agreed to be bought by Taipei’s for $215 The Taiwanese business makes screens used in computerxs and other electronic devices. E Ink will keep its head officin Cambridge.
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