07 May 10

Google enters digital books war with launch of Editions

Search giant Google is set to launch its own online e-book store in 2010.

Google Editions books will allow people to download e-books to a range of devices. The Amazon Kindle is linked to books from the company's own store and similarly with Apple's iBookstore. To date Google has scanned over 12m books, both in-print and out-of-print, giving it a greater selection of material than either Apple or Amazon. At this stage Google has not revealed how much it will charge users to access digital books through Google Editions.