Google planning to offer “cloud” eBooks through Google Editions | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan
Google is planning to launch what it’s calling a “buy anywhere, read anywhere”digital books program called Google Editions. The launch is scheduled for the first half of 2010.
The books can be purchased from any computing device, and then read on any other device. This gets around one of the major problems and criticisms of the Sony eBook Reader & the Amazon Kindle — digital rights management that limits the download vs. access on different devices. Another nice feature is that once you access a book on a device, it’s cached and therefore you can read offline as well. Nice!
Now, if only Google could come up with an alternative to iTunes using the same access model, they would truly (and I do mean truly) rule the world of computing and digital content.
If you want to read more, Teleread and Engadget have good commentaries on Google Editions’ effect on eBooks.
