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I'm curious why Google Books isn't involved one way or another in this. I suppose they may be tired of lawsuits involving publishers.
by j_baker 15y ago
I'm curious why Google Books isn't involved one way or another in this. I suppose they may be tired of lawsuits involving publishers.
- Karunamon 15y agoI'm guessing due to lack of popularity and possibly inclusion in whatever collusion is going on. For most, if you think "eBooks", you think Amazon or iBooks.
- viraptor 15y agoNot necessarily. If you have iWhatever you may think that. If you're running android you're thinking Amazon or Play books.
- r00fus 15y agoConsidering the Play Books has only been around for a few months, you sound a bit hard to believe. I'd say it's more likely the average Joe and Jane think about the Kindle and the Nook (and maybe the iPad - oh, but that's mainly for playing games + browsing) and their respective bookstores.
- viraptor 15y agoWell - when you open android market, you see ebooks advertised. That's Play books. If you browse popular applications, you'll see Kindle. I'm saying this from the point of view of possibilities / easy accessibility. No, iBooks is not an option for Android users, because they have no access to it. They don't care about it unless they have an iDevice - that's all I tried to say. If you go for a Kindle device, your first option is Amazon of course. Actually a common user will probably know something about Kindle and that he can buy books on his mobile. The details about who they come from and how they work are not that important.
- stonemetal 15y agoGoogle has been selling ebooks for about a year less than Apple (April 2010 vs Dec 2010). If Google had hit their announced release date for their ebook store it would have been with in weeks of each other. Sure Google just rebranded their store a few months ago but it has been around for much longer.
- Karunamon 15y agoAmazon's been in the eBook game long before Android.
- iscrewyou 15y agoI've never really seen Google be so offensive. They do sue but in most cases when someone is suing them first.
- smackfu 15y agoWhy would they? Apple was the one who facilitated the collusion between the publisher competitors.