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Google joins Sony in backing open e-book format

Toronto : Canada | 3 months ago  
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Google is making over a million books available for free download in ePub, an open format that devices such as iPods, iPhones and Sony Readers can use. The company, which is in the middle of an ambitious plan to scan and digitize all of the world's books, announced the move on its blog on Wednesday. "We began...
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  • News Source: Uinta County News | 3 months ago
    Now, according to PC Magazine, Google’s massive supply of public domain books just got a bit more portable. The company today announced that it would be releasing more than one million books in the format, which is compatible with the iPhone,...
  • News Source: New York Observer | 3 months ago
    We'll also continue to make available these books in the popular PDF format so you can see images of the pages just as they appear in the printed book." Downloading a book onto your phone or desktop may seem simple: just type in a title on Google...
  • News Source: Androscoggin News | 3 months ago
    To use the format, first conduct a search for a public domain book within Google Book Search.
  • News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 3 months ago
    Google is making over a million books available for free download in ePub, an open format that devices such as iPods, iPhones and Sony Readers can use. The company, which is in the middle of an ambitious plan to scan and digitize all of the world's...
  • News Source: Uinta County News | 3 months ago
    Sony took a page from Amazon on Tuesday in the intensifying competition to dominate the fast-growing e-book market, and it added a few chapters of its own. The electronics giant introduced the Reader Daily Edition, its first portable reader, which...
  • News Source: Androscoggin News | 3 months ago
    Sony announced the 7-inch touch-screen Daily Edition today.  PC World said , "In portrait mode, about 30 to 35 lines of text will visible, making the experience very similar to that of a printed paperback book." An ebook the size of a paperback,...
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