Will the iPad be killed by Google Editions? Kill the Kindle? Google Editions is a browser-based e-book platform that may have Apple and Amazon looking for no faxing payday loans. Earlier this week was announced the Google Editions launch date of late June or July. Google Editions, unlike Amazon and Apple, is a digital publishing service offering books that customers can read on any device and buy from whoever wants to sell the books to them. Publishers are probably probably the most looking forward to Google Editions e-books. Google Editions may also let publishers name their own prices, also in contrast to Apple and Amazon business.
eBooks by Google Editions
This Google Editions was announced at Random House's New York offices by Chris Palma who’s Google's strategic partner development manager. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google Edition users could be able to read Google Editions e-books they discover through Google’s book-search. Google Editions will even allow book retailers — including local independent shops — sell Google Editions on their own online websites and let them keep many of the money.
The launch date for Google Editions
The Google Editions launch date is emerging as a significant threat to the goals of Amazon and Apple to dominate e-publishing. Currently, Amazon promotes more than 500,000 titles for its Kindle device. Apple has tens of thousands and counting for its iPad. A much larger selection than Amazon or Apple, Google has already digitalized 12 million books. iPad titles have to be purchased at Apple and Kindle at Amazon. Google Editions will make it so titles are accessible everywhere, to be read on any device that has a browser.
Google Editions e-pub
In just a few short months, Google Editions e-pub might turn the whole publishing world upside down, including online and in real life. 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. Amazon’s book pricing policy is causing ill-will in the publishing world. 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.
Will the iPad be killed by Google Editions?
Is it possible that Google Editions could be 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 it's an offer they cannot refuse. Publishers need a lot more outlets to sell books. Even the smallest corner bookstore can make money on millions of titles. And you do not have to buy a Kindle or an iPad to read them. So why should you?
Article Resources
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575224232417931818.html?mod=WSJ_business_LeadStoryCollection
New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/26/100426fa_fact_auletta
publishers set the price of their books
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10444878-93.html?tag=mncol;txt
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