E-books By Google – The Kindle And IPad Killer?
Will Google Editions kill the iPad? The Kindle slayer? Google Editions is a browser-based e-book platform that may have Apple and Amazon looking for no fax pay day loans. Earlier this week was announced the Google Editions launch date of late June or July. Unlike Apple and Amazon, Google Editions is a digital publishing service offering books that customers can read on any device and buy from whoever wants to sell them. The Google Editions e-books is probably making publishers most excited about it. Also unlike the Apple and Amazon business models, Google Editions will let the publishers name their own prices.
Google Editions eBooks
The Google Editions debut was announced at Random House’s New York offices by Chris Palma, Google’s strategic partner development manager. The Wall Street Journal says Google Edition users will be able to read Google Editions e-books they discover through Google’s book-search. Including independent shops, Google Editions will let book retailers sell Google Editions on their sites and let them keep most of the money.
The launch date for Google Editions
Amazon and Apple’s goals of dominating e-publishing is being seriously threatened by the Google Edition launch date. Right now, Amazon already has more than 500,000 titles for its kindle device. For the iPad there are tens of thousands and counting. Google has already digitized 12 million books, including out-of-print titles, a far greater selection than Amazon or Apple. iPad titles have to be purchased at Apple and Kindle at Amazon. Any device that has a browser can access Google Editions since titles will be available everywhere.
E-pub for Google Editions
The publishing world, including online and in real life, would be turned upside down by Google Editions e-pub in just a few months. In an article published in the New Yorker in April, Dan Clancy of Google Books said that in trying to dominate the market, Amazon and Apple were taking the wrong approach to business online. “It’s much more of an open ecosystem, where you find a way for bricks-and-mortar stores to participate in the future digital world of books,” he said. “We’re quite comfortable having a diverse range of physical retailers, whereas most of the other players would like to have a less competitive space, because they’d like to dominate.”
Amazon reality check
One of the best things about Google Editions is that it lets publishers set the price of their books, and gives local bookstores a chance to compete with behemoths like Amazon, Apple and Barnes and Noble. Ill will is being caused in the publishing world because of the book pricing policy on Amazon. Amazon is actually losing money by selling e-books for a flat $ 9.99. Amazon thinks it can later bend publishers to its will, as the New Yorker reports that it has 80-90 percent market share.
Google Editions – iPad killer?
Is Google Editions the iPad killer? With the Google Editions launch date approaching, the Wall Street Journal reports that publishers haven’t officially agreed to participate, but most industry insiders think that it probably was an offer they can’t refuse. Publishers need more outlets to sell books. Even a bookstore on the corner will make money on millions of titles. And you don’t have to buy a Kindle or an iPad to read them. So why should you?
Resources
Wall Street Journal
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575224232417931818.html?mod=WSJ_business_LeadStoryCollection
New Yorker
newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/26/100426fa_fact_auletta
CNET
news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10444878-93.html?tag=mncol;txt
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