Google Dives Into Online Bookstore Business
Google is making the leap from digital librarian to merchant in a challenge to Amazon.com and its electronic reader, the Kindle.
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Google is making the leap from digital librarian to merchant in a challenge to Amazon.com and its electronic reader, the Kindle.
Amazon.com Inc. is selling a self-published guide that offers advice to pedophiles, and that has generated outrage on the Internet and threats to boycott the retailer.
Up until now, people who have bought e-readers have had to make a compromise: either read in color on a highly reflective screen, or read in shades of gray on a display that's easy to make out even outdoors.
In a victory for free speech and privacy rights of Amazon.com customers, a federal judge ruled that the company would not have to turn over detailed records to North Carolina tax collectors.
Google Inc.'s effort to wed Web surfing with television viewing is gathering more support from major media outlets that distribute some of the content that will help sell the concept.
