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Google Inc. has plans to launch an online bookstore in 2010.  This new venture is called Google Editions and it will offer a universal e-book format.

Barnes & Noble has entered into the eReader market with a device that will likely be very competitive with Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader.  The Nook is wifi enabled, sports a color touchscreen for scrolling through book titles, and runs on the Android platform (which will support Android apps when connected to wifi).  It supports [...]

Google Book Search has added a new section in the overview page of some books called “Common Terms and Phrases”.  To view the overview page click on the “About this book” link below the title.  You will be able to view the word cloud tool and explore “the distribution of words in the book”.  Terms [...]

While Google may be the most eminent pursuer of open access to books with its ambitious Library Project, it is not the first.  Libraries started doing this before Google and while some libraries have partnered with Google, hundreds of other libraries have partnered with the Open Content Alliance (OCA) which is “a collaborative effort of [...]

Tweet from GFU’s Robin Ashford, Reference and Distance Services Librarian:
Open source, collaborative, viral, interactive, convergent & dynamic-The Living Book http://tinyurl.com/nk3jol “This can be the future”.

Barnes and Noble has purchased eReader.com, a popular online bookstore, and is pricing their books as low as Amazon plus kicking in a little extra incentive with a rewards program.  Read more in the post by Ed Hansberry on the InformationWeek Blog.
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Tweet from Robin Ashford: GFU Reference and Distance Services Librarian
Read “Google’s digital book future hangs in the balance” http://tinyurl.com/no9dev balanced view-personally hope Google can move forward.

Google is going after Amazon in the ebook market.  The big G is going to sell ebooks and making them available on any non-proprietary device with internet access.  Google is expected to go live with this ebook project at the end of 2009.  Read more in the New York Times article, Poised to Sell E-Books, [...]

The library now has a new resource available on the website to help you find ebooks, both through our library and on the Web.  Find it in our “How do I…” help section on the library’s homepage.

From: Robin Ashford, GFU Reference and Distance Services Library
The link below is to Amazon’s page for the Kindle DX. I find the price
outrageous. Having said that, I took the full five minutes and watched this video from Amazon (scroll down to find). It’s pretty amazing. This device is a trending topic on Google and Twitter. [...]