Excerpt: Google plans to begin selling e-books this summer over a platform that would allow readers to load the books onto multiple electronic devices, the company said Tuesday.
The Mountain View search giant outlined the plan at a panel discussion in New York that was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The service is called Google Editions and will allow users to buy e-books directly from the company, as well as through other retailers.
No details were given regarding the price of books or which publishers would participate in the project.
Gabriel Stricker, a spokesman for Google, acknowledged Tuesday that the Google Editions service was being targeted for a launch sometime this summer. The service would also be "device-agnostic*" — meaning that any Internet-enabled device could download and read the books, he said.
*Not familiar with this term, but glancing through 6 pages of Google search results (there's much more) indicates it goes back at least to 2002.
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