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Giving Thanks for Electronic book Readers and e-books

It has been close to 2 years now for Electronic Reader Review and we have a lot to be thankful for...

• We thank insightful and progressive companies such as Amazon and Sony for jumping in and really leading the way in this new market. The Amazon kindle and the Sony Reader are hands down at the top of the game and for good reason...they're great products!

• We'd like to thank Google for pushing the digital publishing boundaries by making over 300,000 classic and out of print books available to the masses...for free!

• We thank Amazon, Blurb and Lulu for helping regular people write, publish and distribute their own books.
• We'd like to thank the Search Engines: Google, Bing, Yahoo, MSN and the many others for indexing Electronic-Reader.com and sending your eyes our way.

• Finally, we'd like to thank you, the reader. It seems that one of the biggest benefits gained from electronic readers and digital books is that it is once again cool to read!

Thanks again everyone. We hope you have a fun and safe thanksgiving!

Google to Open a Digital book Marketplace

In an announcement that may come as a surprise to some, Google has said that it plans to launch a partner program for authors to sell digital versions of their books online.

For many years now Google has sought to bring out of print or public domain books, to the masses through their "Google book Search." When they first did this many authors and publishers, such as the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers weren't happy and took Google to court over it.

But, the world has changed in the last three years and as we well know now, digital is THE format of choice for content publishing. So, it is no surprise that the lawsuit against Google has been settled and Google and these same publishers and authors are working together to bring more books online.

This is good news for us...readers and authors, but what about the mighty Amazon?