according to the computerworld article dale linked to,
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In a move that seems to target Amazon.com's Kindle business, Google said in a statement that it wants to build and support a "digital book ecosystem" to allow its partner publishers to make their books available for purchase from any web-enabled device, whether it is a PC, a smart phone, a netbook or a dedicated reading device, the company said.
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(emphasis mine).
if google plans to make books available in standard formats like epub this could actually be very good news for content availability.
now the big questions are :
will the offer be geographically restricted ?
will the books be locked into a drm scheme (and if yes, which one) ?
what pricing scheme will the publishers adopt ? i find it very interesting that google reserves itself the right to "adjust prices that it deemed "exorbitant."" i guess we just have to see whether google's idea of exorbitant matches the idea of typical readers.
since they plan to launch this by the end of 2009 we should know more soon.