3 more days.

then I’ll be free from school for a month!

Google Books/eBooks

It has been rumored for quite a while that Google will launch its own ebook store. After many rumor days has been passed and many promises and claims of this is the legitimate news has been failed, everyone believed Google would launch one by end of the year. Today Google books officially launched. It is formerly known as Google Editions, Google entered into already crowded and chaotic market.

What sets Google Books apart from any other ebook outlets? Google eBooks is pretty open as Google always want their service to be, though it seems its just computer, android, apple, sony, and nook for now but surely supports more devices than any other outlet right now and books stored in cloud system with unlimited storage of your purchases with sync between all your devices. Currently offers more than 15 million books and about 3 million titles on sale.

I do not know much about publishing industry but I wonder how this will work out against competitors. As an android phone user and an iPad owner I tried Kindle and iBooks and my current ebook system is kindle. It does everything what Google is doing right now except reading directly from cloud (Kindle also stores all purchased book on there server so you don’t have to store all of them on your disks) and supporting ePub and PDF file formats. Google’s solution seems better way to do in the near future but I’m still skeptical about all cloud with current US infrastructure of mobile broadband and lately how major Internet Servie Providers having problem with their services.

I often open up a book and read when there’s no internet access. I personally not sure how often I will be willing to read books when I’m not able to read in my CTA train when there’s no internet connectivities.

However, I definitely welcome the direction of Google is going. Everyone, let’s welcome Google to eBook market.