Google Sony donates 500,000 books.

Sony E-Reader is used by Google at a stroke with a huge library equipped. These are books whose copyright has expired, including some novels by Charles Dickens and works from antiquity. The future can be read digitally - for free.

 

Sony E-Reader under the agreement will almost
Amazon's Kindle e-reader can catch up - at least what the size of the digital library are available. For the Kindle, there is currently - in the U.S. - approximately 600,000 books for download.

Sony announced now in the U.S. there will be 500,000 books available for the
house type E-Reader in Europe some less, but still "hundreds of thousands." It was a logical step to attract more people to bring more books to information anywhere and on any device making it available. " The official announcement from Google is still pending - for the Thursday afternoon, a telephone conference.

Google initially announced only that you believe "an open platform for accessing and reading books" and was therefore "always open to discussions with technology partners." You can see a future in which "people everywhere on the planet, the books of the World search, discover and access it can be." Many of the books searchable on Google books have already been using a special software to transfer text files, so that they
Phones with the Google Android operating system can read. Only logical that the files are now other devices available.

According to the Associated Press (AP) are the books which are now in the Reader-compatible format should be made available, all from the period before 1923. Among them were about Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and Herodotus' Histories. "

Even now, the books on Google Books as PDF before. Well, Google works According the AP Epub format (Electronic Publication) available, so that they relate to readers like the Sony Reader is better represented. The files must be downloaded via a PC and from there to the electronic reader transferred. Kindle books are on a wireless connection directly to the device is captured.

The
E-book platform of the German Book Trade, Libreka, currently offers only a modest number of books as PDF downloads. Books in the Epub format but will soon follow. The largest online collection of German literature, the classics
Project Gutenberg - free.

The alliance between Google and Sony expected the Epub format give a powerful thrust. Amazon's Kindle books are in a proprietary format, and can not look at other readers. Also prohibits other vendors Amazon, books in Kindle format to publish.