Google Said to Open E-Book Shop, Taking on Amazon.com
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Google Inc., stepping up competition with Amazon.com Inc., will open an online store for electronic versions of books in the U.S. this year and internationally in 2011, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans.
The Mountain View, California-based company is working with book publishers to sell hundreds of thousands of e-books, said the person, who asked not to be identified because details of the project haven’t been made public.