Thread: Oyster shutters its ebook service
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Old 09-23-2015, 05:14 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
According to the report at The Digital Reader blog, Google didn't buy the publisher contracts. So they won't be continuing the Oyster service. What they are buying is the staff and some of the plumbing tech.

http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...red-to-google/
Which certainly sounds like Google is working on...improving their service.

I don't think Google needs publisher agreements. Whatever Google dreams up will probably differ from Oyster enough that they'd need new contracts anyway.
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