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Mountain View, KOMPAS.com - Starting in the mid of this year Google reportedly will start selling digital books through online bookstores will be opened. Thus the latest CNN report quoted a company spokesman.

This will put Google in competition e-book market is now becoming popular. Kindle's online bookstore Amazon.com jumped ahead to lead the market, but Barnes & Noble also catch up with e-reader release of Nook, and Apple recently launched iBookstore for the iPad.

Google has partnered with Taiwan's HTC to develop a new tablet computer to rival the iPad. Stores digital book itself will help sales of tablet PC design Google it and become her new purse.

But with the new service, called Google Editions, Google does not set the service was only for PC tablets themselves. Unlike some competitors, Google is planning enables digital books to be read on many other devices. However, Google Editions, on the other hand, will not allow users to download digital books, but can only be accessed through a web browser and connect to the internet.

Unlike Amazon.com myang emaksa publishers package books with a special format, just for Kindle homemade devices or applications that are installed Kindle to another device to read books in the library of the Amazon. Apple also embraces so-called industry standard Epub, where digital books that can only be read on the Apple device or through a software product.