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Written by Nick Farrell
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:35 |
Fighting the
Kindle
Sony is announcing Thursday a deal with Google to make a half
million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to
the Amazon Kindle.
Since 2004, Google has scanned about seven million
books from major university and research library collections. The
books available to Reader owners were written before 1923 and include
classics and harder find titles.
The difficulty that Sony has is that
Amazon's Kindle comes with 250,000 books in its Kindle library. These are the
books people are most interested in reading, like new releases and best
sellers.
Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive sniffed that works in
the public domain, like those Google is making available to Sony, are easy to
get since there are no copyrights attached.
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