Introduced today, to much fanfare: Google eBookstore. Here's what Google says about its latest offering on the Official Google Blog.
Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and search through the largest ebooks collection in the world with more than three million titles including hundreds of thousands for sale. Find the latest bestsellers like James Patterson’s Cross Fire and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, dig into popular reads like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken and catch up on the classics like Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and Gulliver’s Travels.
Google's promo video:
Okay, so maybe this is another Google game-changer, maybe not.But let's take a peek at what always interests us most whenever a major new online content product is released: