Google may have an online e-book store in the works. CEO Eric Schmidt implied this to reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, according to BBC News.
Schmidt said that such a venture would depend on gaining permission from copyright holders.
Reporters asked if Google would be considering a program similar to Sony's where deals were made with major publishers to sell e-books, and thus bolstering sales for its new e-book reader.
Schmidt said he wanted "to be clear" that Google would consider it, as long as permission was acquired.
A deal to sell electronic versions of published works may sooth the dispute between Google and publishers over Google Book Search, a multimillion dollar project to scan and index all English-language books.
Such a service would put Google in direct competition with Amazon.com, and create more competition for Microsoft.
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