Google to sell ebooks

Google announced earlier this month that it will enter the ebook market very soon. How soon is it? Could possibly by the end of this year. This new service is quite different from its present book searching service, or “Google Books“. The competitors include Amazon, as well as some other online ebook stores. However, it is still not clear if Google will provide free contents with certain advertisements, just like in some other Google services (for example Gmail). According to the New York Times, Google will largely act as a filter to millions of fictions, non-fictions, and reference titles. Also, unlike Amazon, Google probably will not make a new ebook reading device.