According to Analysts at the Yankee Group have predicted that the US ebook reader market is "about to catch fire sparking from $1.3bn (£0.86bn) in revenue in 2010 to $2.5bn (£1.65bn) by 2013".Currently Amazon’s Kindle is leading the market, but is only able to link to it’s own store it’s the same story with their closest rival’s Apple and Apple’s iBookstore.
Google is set to join the party as they have announced that they are going to launch their own online e-book store later on this year. However, Google Editions books will not be tied to a specific device. They will be readable on any web enabled device from a mobile phone to a netbook and from a tablet to a desktop, the implications are clear for e-book stores tied to a single device.
Google said it would make "millions of books searchable via the web", which in the past has got them into legal difficulty as critics have long claimed Google's deal with US publishers and authors would give them a monopoly over online book sales.
Watch this space!
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