by David Sarno, Los Angeles Times
Google Inc. is penning the next chapter in the story of electronic books. Today the Mountain View, Calif., technology giant is unveiling its long-expected “Google eBooks” platform, an e-book store that contains 3 million volumes, most of which are free public domain works. But hundreds of thousands of Google’s e-books will be paid titles from major and minor publishers. Those will include many bestsellers and, Google says, the vast majority of books already commercially available in electronic form. By opening its eBookStore, Google is pitting itself squarely against established digital booksellers, including the market leader Amazon.com and relative
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