Google is poised to launch an e-book sales. The platform has long been prepared Editions Google would the U.S. before year's end and in the first quarter of 2011 and in other countries to go online in, the manager said a Google on Wednesday. Originally, the offer should last summer to go online. Last are some technical and legal hurdles have been overcome, the paper said. Google's approach differs from the approach of competitors such as the e-book pioneer, Amazon or Apple iBooks with his bookstore. There shop is of the readers to their online bound, Apple also to the devices from that manufacturer. Google suggest to users on the other hand kind of virtual book shelves on the Internet before the one they drive via web browser, which device whatsoever. It sells digital books not only from Google itself, but also other brands.

To start the internet group would contain hundreds of thousands more to offer for sale - and millions of expired copyright free number, wrote the Wall Street Journal. U.S. industry experts expect the paper said the fact that Google is quickly becoming a major player in e-book market. "Google is anywhere on the Internet, where it comes to books, make it a place where you can buy this book ', said about the founder of an independent U.S. book retailer. The head of the publishing house Harper Collins, Brian Murray, sees the lack of a separate e-book reader as an advantage. The distribution platform is based on the controversial plan to, the world's books for the Google Books service to scan all and make them searchable on the web. The scan was offensive dispute with authors, publishers, booksellers and governments ensured. The agreement with the U.S. book industry in a lump sum payment of 125 million dollars was tilted.