Lost in the thick of theEbook warsbetween Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Apple and Sony are the self-governing bookstores who do n’t have the biff to bang with the big boys . Not for long , they ’re looking for help — from Google .
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Google is on the verge of striking a deal with the American Booksellers Association , home to 1400 autonomous bookstall , which will makeGoogle Editions , Google ’s forthcoming ebook platform , the elementary beginning of e - volume on all those bookstall ’ Web site .
Darin Sennett , Director of Web developing at Powell ’s Book in Portland , Oregon say :
“ Google would leave us to dally completely outside the gimmick - centric secret plan . I do n’t see Google right away working to sabotage or outsell their retail mate . I doubt they are going to be editorially recommending books and making choice about what multitude should read , which is what bookstore do . ”
By name this partnership , Google would gain an entrenched , loyal client base that would aid them hack down the sizable leads that the likes of Amazon and Apple have built . Google hopes to introduceGoogle Editions , an opened political program that ’s also accessible through site , with hundreds of thousands of books ranging from fiction , nonfiction , and even textbooks .
As a jobber , Google will playact a role similar to that of offline distributors like Ingram Book and Baker & Taylor , which buy Good Book from publishers and resell them to bookshop . Those companies generally keep a single - digit percentage of each sale , and Google would operate along standardised lines .
It will be interesting to see whether an ebook platform can have success as stricly a retailer . If Google can get their books onto vie devices , it could become a serious competitor . Just imagine doing a quick Google Search on a book and being able to buy it straight from the Google hunt resultant . [ NY Times ]
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