Google Helps Sony's eBook Store Surpass 1 Million Mark
Google Helps Sony's eBook Store Surpass 1 Million Mark
Posted 07/30/2009 at 8:35am
| by Paul Lilly
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Earlier this year, Sony inked a deal with Google to bring half a million public domain books to its eBook Store, but apparently that was just the beginning. In a blog post, Sony announced its free public domain content offering from Google has now surpassed the 1 million title mark.
"We are now offering the widest array of eBooks today," Sony wrote. "From hot new releases to New York Times best sellers, to classics and hard to find manuscripts such as those available for free from Google."
All 1 million+ titles are available in EPUB format and work seamlessly with Sony's PRS-505 and PRS-700 eBook Readers, but not the PRS-500. For the time being, only U.S.-based readers have access to the plethora of books, likely a result of sticky licensing agreements and copyright law.
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BlueBeyond
July 30, 2009 at 12:03pm
Sick to death as well. I lurve my prs 505, but since i live in europe I can't buy a fraction of the books I really want to buy. Someone is making bad business decisions out there.
And another thing I dont really get is why Sony sell their reader outside the US and then at least not try to make a site where you can buy some of the books. I buy via Waterstones.com and (if they get their selection on track!!!) will probably continue to do so even if Sony put up a site that will sell to me.
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Tekzel
July 30, 2009 at 11:47am
Anyone else SICK TO DEATH of hearing about copyright this, copyright that to the point I don't give a damn any more?
dag1992
July 30, 2009 at 10:31am
I always did prefer Sony's reader to the locked down Kindle, but in reality, releasing a bunch of public domain books isn't going to put a huge dent into Amazon.
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