Google Delivers a Teeny Weeny E-Book Surprise
November 26, 2009
Gobble, gobble. That’s the sound of Google’s practicing another money eating exercise. Google has a yen for Japan I think. Navigate to “Google Japan to Start Paid E-Book Service: Report”. Keep in mind that this MarketWatch story might be a premature flag. I did find it interesting, however. For me, the telling comment was:
Upon the launch of its service, Google Japan aims to stock an online library of up to 10,000 books. It is already in talks with smaller publishers to sell their works on Google Edition, the report said.
This push will take place in the US, Britain, and now Japan.
Stephen Arnold, September 26, 2009
Disclosure: Council of Foreign Relations, oyez, I was not paid to point out that the Google likes sushi. I will not include in the story this question, “When will Google go to an author and license the author’s output directly?”
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