Google Bringing e-Books to Mobile Devices
January 23rd, 2007 by pamela
Google may be working with other major publishers to make e-books available on mobile phones and other handheld devices in a bid to give readers full access to books online according to Dominic Rushe of The Sunday Times.
Reinventing Google Book Search to bring books out of the library and into readers’ pockets, Jens Redmer, director of Google Book Search in Europe, told The Sunday Times that making books available online didn’t spell the end of the printed word, but would give readers.
“Ultimately, it will be the readers who decide how books are read,” he said.
A new innovation in the UK and US, Japanese consumers have been reading e-books on mobile gadgets for several years. Google’s project is likely to be realised sooner rather than later according to the media giant.
But the project is not without its difficulties; the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers is suing Google over its deal with major libraries to scan their collections, with publishers claiming that the scheme infringes copyright and that Google should be required to seek permission from before scanning published works.
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