Google eBookstore

[Wizzo]

Touting themselves as having the largest digital bookstore in the world, the Google eBookstore is a bit different in a few ways. First, unlike Amazon, Google sells books that come in various formats and can be read on almost any device, from the iPad to your netbook or smartphone.

Second, The Google eBookstore might just be bigger than it’s competitors, with over 3 million books available with many of them free and hundreds of thousands of titles for sale. The options are certainly extensive. Cheaper? Maybe not, but it certainly seems like a generous selection.

Lastly, Google also offers a Google eBooks Web Reader, where you can buy, store and read Google eBooks in the cloud allowing you access to your ebooks like you would your messages in Gmail, using a free account with unlimited ebooks storage.

The Google eBookstore is open now, at  www.books.google.com

[lkjohnson1950]

I know I'm an old fart, but I still prefer pages, covers and bindings with that faintly musty smell. Books in a library, what a concept.

Lonny

[Canada Darrell™]

I recon i may have checked out one of my last analog  books at the library last week. It was the latest Carl Hiaasen offering "Star Island". Reading on my iPad is simply heaven. The screen size is pretty much the same size as a book, maybe a little larger actually. Text is razor sharp and I can get every magazine I read on a regular basis, tons of books, PDF files, all my email and all my web surfing. This thing has revolutionized my day-to-day computer usage.
Getting way off topic, I can control my HTPC with a killer interface, remote in to both home computers from anywhere I get a wifi signal, do all my youtubing, control my usenet downloading and on and on. The battery life is incredible to boot.