eBook Readers with Web Browsers Needed for Google Editions
Google is hoping to distinguish Google Editions from its competition by allowing users to access books from a broad range of websites using an array of devices
Google plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July 2010, throwing the search engine company into a battle that already involves Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble. Google says users will be able to buy digital copies of books (essentially ebooks) they discover through their book-search service, the same service that has been under such legal scrutiny since its initial release. So how does this affect you?
Will your eBook Reader be able to read Google Editions ebooks?
Mobile Devices has a post about how Google Editions, Google’s e-books service, will not have a specific ebook format like ePub, PDF, or AZW, but instead is read through a web browser. So the question is, will your ebook reader be able to view and read Google Editions ebooks? Well, that depends on whether or not your ereader has a web browser. Here is a small table of what ebook readers have web browsers and which don’t:
| eBook eReader | Web Browser | Color |
| Barnes and Noble’s nook | Yes | No, Grayscale |
| Apple’s iPad | Yes | Yes, Color |
| Amazon Kindle | Yes | No, Grayscale |
| Spring Design Alex | Yes | No, Grayscale |
| Plastic Logic Que | No |
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