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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. First GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gay Niggers Association of America.

    1. Re:First GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry guys, I'm Steve Job's gay lover who gave him AIDS which is why he has been away from work for so long.

  2. Re:Obvious next step... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.