Mobile Industry Review » Mobile Books http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:46:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google makes book mobile http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/02/google_makes_book_mobile.html http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/02/google_makes_book_mobile.html#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:23:46 +0000 Steve Kennedy http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/02/google_makes_book_mobile.html Google has launched its mobile books service whereby the 1.5m books that it has scanned are available to mobile users as well as traditional desktop users.

Google hopes to fight of Amazon’s Kindle which has sold 1/2m to date (Sprint estimates from users downloading books). Amazon is expected to launch the Kindle v2 later this month which is slimmer and has a metallic back (there are leaked pictures on the ‘net).

The e-book market is expected to be worth $1.2bn by 2010.

Google is hoping to extend its service soon with the addition of out-of-print titles and even current titles doing deals with publishers.

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