Thread: Sony Partners With Google To Bring More Than 500,000 Books To The Reader
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Old 03-19-2009, 10:42 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
The real value is not the particular books being made available; rather the real value is that Google is making them available in DRM-free ePub. Google's adoption of ePub as the format gives a tremendous boost to ePub and its viability as the single standard.
Yes, but providing a bunch of shoddily OCR'd books is not the best way to "showcase" a format. I do hope it furthers the spread of ePub, though.
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