http://ireaderreview.com/2009/03/18/google-sony-partnership-to-offer-500k-free-epub-books/ Kindle Review, Kindle Fire Review, New Kindle Review, Kindle 4 Review Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:22:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ireaderreview.com/2009/03/18/google-sony-partnership-to-offer-500k-free-epub-books/#comment-10091 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:07:35 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=2367#comment-10091 Android would advance faster if they opened all the APIs up to C++, so that no knowledge of Java would be required.

]]> http://ireaderreview.com/2009/03/18/google-sony-partnership-to-offer-500k-free-epub-books/#comment-2527 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:20:18 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=2367#comment-2527 Wouldn’t Google have profited more by either alliancing with Amazon itself or (since they already crawled into bed in many ways with Apple) wait until the Apple release of it’s netbook/ereader in Q4 2009? Then they may have had a shot, but I see the alliance with Sony as going nowhere. Ok. so they offer 500k public domain books to sony readers. Are most if not all of those books already offered by Gutenburg for the Kindle or are well on there way with Manybooks.com or Feedbooks.com? Or, better yet, can I not download the books in pdf from google directly and then easily convert them for my Kindle anyway? This isn’t offering anything exclusive to Sony and therefore won’t really influence the consumers’ decisions on which eReader to buy. In my humble opinion, bad move Google. You may gain a quick $20.00 for this deal, but you’ve shut yourself out of the running for the long-term investment which will yield far more profits. You aren’t shaking up the industry, you’re shooting yourself in the foot.

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