Google and Sony make a grab for free e book and e-reader market

Google has joined forces with Sony to take on the staid world of book publishing. The internet giant aims to make up to 7m books that it has scanned from the world’s libraries available for customers to download onto an electronic reading device, known as an e-reader.  They want to compete with Google’s free e book
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The move has not only shaken traditional book publishers, but is a body- blow to Amazon, the online book retailer, which had hoped to corner the market for electronic books with its state-of-the-art e-reader, the Kindle 2. Times Online

The free e book will take the place of the traditional space-eating blook shelves

Audiobooks, free e book, and cell telephone books are so available that readers will not have to use the paper book anymore.  As these technologies get rolled out and people figure out how to use them, it will be so wide spread.  They are already big in European continents.   Freshnews

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