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Sony licenses public domain books from Google
ZDNet Government —
... Sony announced a deal with Google to put some 500,000 public domain books on the Sony Reader, The NY Times reports. The addition of books like ...
Google Brings 500,000 Public Domain eBooks To Sony Readers [Ebooks]
Gizmodo —
... If a book was published before 1923 and it's at all worth reading, there's a pretty good chance that you'll soon be able to download it to your Sony reader for free. ...
First Bytes: Oracle, Sony, Vivek Kundra, Time Inc.
Tech Observer —
While bank shareholders are dealing with major reductions in dividend payments, Oracle owners will receive their first dividend ever from the software giant. [Wall Street Journal]
Look out, Kindle. Sony struck a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device. They were all written before 1923, however. [New York Times]
Now we know what Vivek Kundra, America's CIO, was busted for stealing when he was 21: four shirts from J.C. Penney worth $134. It's hard to out-geek that. Sounds perfect for the job. [Associated Press]
Time Inc. is trying to figure out how much you would be ...
News Bits: Sony, Google Gang Up on Kindle
Contentinople: —
... (Nasdaq: AMZN) Kindle's 250,000. Google has been scanning books from major university and research library collections since 2004, and now has about 7 million titles total. But only those with expired copyrights can be made available to Sony. It remains to be seen whether books written before 1923 will be as big of a draw as Amazon's best sellers, new releases, and newspaper/magazine subscriptions. Especially when many Sony customers (like me) already have ...
Sony Reader: 500,000 Free Books
dailywireless.org —
... — for its Google Book Search project. Now Google is providing many of those copyright-free books to Sony. Most of the free additions to the Sony Reader do not have copyright issues and will have been published before 1923. ...
Sony Reader gets 500,000 public domain e-books thanks to Google
jkOnTheRun —
This is just so cool. Sony has cut a deal with Google to add 500,000 public domain titles produced through Google’s e-book scanning project into the Sony Reader library. The e-books will be available to Sony Reader owners and are in the ePub format, a popular open electronic publishing format usable by the Reader. These public domain titles were all published prior to 1923 and contain thousands of classics.
Sony has no doubt cut this deal in response to Amazon’s launch of the Kindle 2. Amazon has a huge library of available content for the Kindle and now Sony does too. It’s hard to beat the classics, and Sony Reader owners now ...
Sony Reader gets 500,000 free books from Google
Obsessable News Feed —
... Sony and Google signed a deal to make Google's massive library of copyright-free books available for free on Sony's Reader devices in addition to the Reader's existing library. The deal adds about half a million books; that's twice as much as the total number of books available on the Kindle 2 (about 250,000). Amazon argues that it 250,000 books are ones that most people would actually want to read, including new releases and bestsellers. Most of the books you'll find in the Google library are classics or very obscure recent works. ...
Sony and Amazon to Face Off Over Google Books Deal
Bits —
... the agreement. The positions being taken by both companies are not surprising. Amazon sees Google as a potential threat in the e-book business. For its part, Sony has aligned itself with Google in the past.
Google, Amazon Increasingly at Odds Over E-Books
Bits —
... ’s Kindle. The deal, which covers books that Google has scanned from libraries and whose copyright have expired, comes on the heels of similar agreements that Google has struck with Amazon rivals like Sony and ...
