First official information on Google Editions

[Dulin's Books]

well it says they can be read on most any device with a browser

as well as on supported partner devices (to be announced during our public launch).

Doesnt that mean that a download on "partner" devices for reading off line?

[jswinden]

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

....It will likely come along quickly, but at this point seems to be grabbing the lowest fruit, and doing little to turn them into wonderful apple pies.

Dingleberry pie at this point, IMHO! Let's hope they are not talking about cloud computing. Cloud computing is the biggest dingleberry of them all.

[Lirael]

Originally Posted by MaggieScratch

I dunno...I downloaded an epub book (The Wanderer by Fanny Burney) from Google and loaded it on my reader and it's a mess. The formatting is borked and there's loads of OCR errors, to the point that it is unreadable in places. Fortunately I found a clean version of the book on Munsey's. But I wonder if the "paid" books will be like that? If so, there will be some disappointed consumers, I think.

That's one of my concerns with this, also. Every Google book I've downloaded has been loaded with errors (I once got one that had about three straight pages of symbols - (@*$#{?>: and so on - instead of content) and while that doesn't bother me in a free product, if I paid for it and it still had those kinds of errors, I'd be really annoyed.