Google Takes on Kindle

[Zorrosuncle]

In a recent NY Times article, it was mentioned that Google would soon start selling ebooks.  They are giving the publisher freedom to set the price -- something which Amazon Kindle reserves for itself.  If this happens, I imagine the publisher will go for the higher price and switch to Google for their ebook publishing.  I see much higher prices out of this.  Too good to last.

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[marianneg]

The publisher sets the price on amazon, too.  Amazon can discount it if they wish (as can all retailers), but the discount will come out of amazon's portion of the profit.  I can't imagine why publishers wouldn't want to sell on as many platforms as possible.

[Sweety18]

I'm so sick of Google trying to enter into everything, pretty soon the entire world will be run by Google 

[Rasputina]

We had another thread on this.

Anyway I'm not worried. There are already multiple ebook dealers, 1 more isn't going to result in Amazon being out of business.

[MarthaT]

at least there will be more resources for ebooks

[Cowgirl]

IMO ...competition will only make the ebook market better

[Cycles4Fun]

I agree, let Google come into the fray.  I think competition drives ingenuity and creativity.

[Xopher]

The question is will Google support a format readible on the Kindle?

[Cycles4Fun]

As long as they don't go proprietary and use one of the established formats, there are converters out there that will easily convert a book to Kindle's format or to Mobi.