According to Cnet, Google plans to launch Google Editions, a new online bookstore. The release is expected at the beginning of the next year. Google is going to open it for big businesses with about half a million titles.
A new bookstore has nothing to do with Google Book Search, that is based on scanning world’s literature and making it accessible online.
Partnering with publishers which whom it already has digital rights deals, Google plans to initially offer about a half-million books through the service, according to press reports from Frankfurt. Readers will be able to purchase the books directly from Google or from online bookstores such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Watch out Amazon. Google is hitting the online bookstore business tooo :).
