Google about to launch its online bookstore Google Editions by year's end. Kenya also allows independent stores
Wall Street Journal reports that Google is about to launch its online bookstore by the end of the year - that is next month. Google Editions will launch online stores in a different way of Apple and Amazon, and allow users to purchase books are from Google and independent bookstores. All the books they buy will be added to the customer's personal account at Google, will be allowed access to them anytime, device - a computer with a browser, Unlocked, tablet and the like. Amazon currently dominates the electronic book market, with handles 65% of it. Amazon's reading device, Kindle, able to buy books only from Amazon's store. Google's new service was to be launched mid 2010, but the company rejected his departure to the market. Google's products and vice president spoke, saying that at first the service will be launched in the U.S. market, and the first quarter of 2011 will also international market. Still not clear what would be revenue sharing model between publishers and Amazon and some partnerships, she concluded. However known that the company has entered into agreements with well-known publishers and is expected to offer hundreds of thousands of books sold millions free. Estimates are that Google can profoundly affect the electronic book market, in 2009 tripled its revenues from -301 to -966 million million. "Google is about to become an online space where all the talk about books where you can buy them," said Dominique temple, an independent publisher. "Google's model will increase the sales lot. We believe they can take over 20% of the market very quickly."
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