Google has announced plans it will start selling eBooks by the end of the year.
The move will put Google in direct competition with Amazon.com and it is also part of its strategy to promote an open platform for reading and accessing books.
Unlike Amazon, Google will allow users to read its ebooks on any Web enabled device including a PC, mobile phone and an eBook reader.
"Eventually, we hope to extend this functionality to retailers who embed Google Previews on their website," the company said in a statement.
People who want to make their blogs more accessible through the Amazon Kindle - and get some money as a result - can consider themselves officially encouraged to do so. Amazon's started a Kindle Publishing for Blogs program that allows for self-publishing and then splits the revenue.
Amazon has introduced a new version of its Kindle Store that is optimized for the Safari Web browser on the iPhone.
In March, Amazon launched an application that makes ebooks sold on its site readable on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
eBay recently announced it was returning to its roots as an auction site more focus on the "secondary market". This is probably a wise move as interest and enthusiasm for eBay have both steadily dwindled over the past year or so.
Billionaires donate to lots of causes for lots of reasons. Sometimes the donations are business related and sometimes they’re not.
Amazon announced today that Amazon Payments is now available in over 25 of the leading eCommerce shopping cart providers. These include solutions like CardinalCommerce, Miva Merchant, Magento, ShopVisible, Mercantec, and Zoovy.
The results of the 10th annual Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient Study have been released, and - thank you, automotive and financial sectors - 88 percent of respondents apparently feel the reputation of corporate America is either "not good" or "terrible." However, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are still well-regarded.
Amazon announced today that HD TV shows are available for purchase, and HD movies are available for devices supporting Amazon Video On Deamnd.
There are over 500 shows and movies from major studios available in HD. Studios include Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Paramount, MGM, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Showtime. Popular titles they're mentioning include Twilight, Smallville, Gossip Girl, Frost/Nixon, and Californication.
Amazon.com announced today it would not allow behavioral advertising firm Phorm to access its Web pages to compile information on Internet users.
Phorm tracks individuals browsing in order to serve highly targeted ads. Phorm has received criticism from the European Commission for the way ISPs use it in the UK. The EU is currently considering legal action against the UK over the use of Phorm.
Amazon.com has come under fire for removing the "Sales Rank" data for books with gay and lesbian themes.
Author Mark R. Probst wrote about the Amazon policy change on his blog Sunday.
"On Amazon.com two days ago, mysteriously, the sales rankings disappeared from two newly-released high profile gay romance books: 'Transgressions' by Erastes and 'False Colors' by Alex Beecroft. Everybody was perplexed. Was it a glitch of some sort?"
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