When Google gets into a business, they get into it all the way.  Google, after teasing the bookstore industry by digitizing entire libraries of classic books, has decided to get into the book game for themselves.  Google has launched Google eBookstore, an ebook sales depot which will sell ebooks for pretty much every type of ebook reader, except for the most popular one.  Google will sell ebooks for the Barnes & Noble Nook; the Sony eReader; the Apple’s iPad, iPod, and iPhone; Android smartphones; and even the Web; however, Google eBookstore won’t sell for the Amazon Kindle.

In a way, I can understand why Google wouldn’t sell for the Kindle, but in a way, it’s like shooting yourself in the foot to prove a point.  I mean, the Kindle is the biggest, baddest ebook reader on the planet right now.  It’s akin to selling MP3s, but not making them iPod-friendly.  Sure, you CAN do this, but why WOULD you want to do this?  If you’re going to go into business, go into business all the way.

Then again, maybe Amazon won’t allow them to sell for the Kindle, in an attempt to keep their business in house.  Maybe Google’s Web format ebooks will work for the Kindle and that’s their way around the blockade.  I’m not sure how it all works, to be honest, but I’m keeping a close eye on the situation.

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