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Google & Sony in eBook Deal
Screenwerk —
... Google is making 500K public domain books available through the Sony eBook Reader, which existed before Kindle but is quite a bit less elegant as a device. From today’s WSJ story: ...
Sony/Google Offering Half-a-Million Free Books for Reader
Gearlog —
... "We aren't set on just having books purchased from our store," Sony's president of the Digital Reading Business Division, Steve Haber, told The Wall Street Journal. "We believe the more content that is allowed access to the device, the better value it is to our customers." ...
News Bits: Sony, Google Gang Up on Kindle
Contentinople: —
... 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 free access to 100 of these titles , with their purchase of a Reader. And Google's deal with Sony isn't exclusive: A spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal that they would be open to partnering with Amazon as well. ...
Sony Reader: 500,000 Free Books
dailywireless.org —
Sony announced a partnership with Google this week that will bring a half-million classic books to the Sony Reader Digital Book. Users will now be able to access the free book downloads through Sony’s eBook Store. Free Google books can be read on the Sony eBook reader (via USB), or read on a computer (via PDF file). ...
Sony-Google E-book Deal A Win for ePub, Openness
Wired: Epicenter —
... The Google-Sony deal puts a bit more pressure on the e-retailer to
drop its walled garden approach and become more open. Google
spokesperson also Jennie Johnson told the Wall Street Journal that the deal is not exclusive, and that it was open to the idea of talks with Amazon as well. ...
Sony-Google Deal A Win for Openness
Tech Observer —
... The Google-Sony deal puts a bit more pressure on the e-retailer to drop its walled garden approach and become more open. Google spokesperson also Jennie Johnson told the Wall Street Journal that the deal is not exclusive, and that it was open to the idea of talks with Amazon as well. ...
Google And Sony Gang Up On Amazon
Google Watch —
... .
Google told the Wall Street Journal that it is open to striking a similar deal with Amazon (subsr. reqd.), but don't expect that to happen anytime soon, because Sony and Amazon have very different business models.
For Sony, the content is a driver for its device business. It's happy to cash in on the price of e-books, but that's not its primary concern.
The opposite is true of Amazon, for which the Kindle is just another vehicle for selling books. That's why it's happy to offer a ...
Sony Reader gets 500,000 free books from Google
Obsessable News Feed —
... [reuters.com] Sony, Google Challenge Amazon - WSJ.com [online.wsj.com] ...
