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Google Set To Tackle eBook Market

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the as-long-as-i-get-to-download-scanned-content-too dept.

Mike writes "Google's latest decision to try its hand selling eBooks promises to make life in the eBook world more interesting, and will likely spur a standards war that in the end may prove beneficial to many consumers. Google's eBook store will pit it directly against Amazon and Amazon's Kindle — an enormously popular eBook reader. This will push many companies to create eBook readers to take advantage of Google's new store, and will flood the market with tough choices. Google does not have a dedicated eBook reader yet, but it seems a logical next step for the search giant."

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  1. Not too happy with my Kindle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was right at the part of my e-novel where it said: "And the killer's name was....(Low Battery) Unfortunately, I was sitting on the commode, and could not reach the AC adapter. :(

    1. Re:Not too happy with my Kindle by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, you misread the ending. I read the same book.

      [SPOILER ALERT]

      The killer's name really was Low Battery.

      Low had tried to frame his brother the rapper, 9V. But the power required to electrocute the victim was too high -- and 9V demonstrated he had full charge by having the detective place both his contacts on his tongue. While 9V lost a lot of street cred for getting tongued by a male detective, it did show that he was fully-charged and quite innocent.

      So then Low Battery tried to frame his sister, Anita Agatha Battery, but AA Battery simply didn't have the brute power necessary for the job.

      Out of blood relatives (and it had to be one of the siblings, as established by DC-NA testing), by process of elimination, it was Low Battery who depleted his power by committing the electrocution, with terminal results.

      So sorry. That last pun was just over the top.

      --
      "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  2. As it will be forever a beta... by mr_lizard13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it will only sell unfinished books

    --
    "We live in a global world" - Harvey Pitt, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
  3. Re:Obvious next step... by Threni · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's hope this solves the standards problem as effectively as java, javascript, html, xhtml, and flash did for browser development.

  4. Re:Cost by mgblst · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really, I saw someone on the bus in Australia reading a kindle... well I assumed she was reading it, now you mention it she could have just been starring at a blank screen.

  5. Re:Really? by Saysys · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a social scientist I can tell you that if he where to "boot strap" his data by sampling his small sample size different ways repeatedly he could come up with something :-)

    p.s.
    After 18 PHD level hours I would not trust a sociologist to tell me where, with any degree of certainty, the bathroom is.