Tuesday 10 February 2009

Amazon and Google faced in Business e-book


Of business e-book will be more exciting to enter the beginning of this year. Google-call will be called into the arena business e-book through the Book Serach. The launch of Kindle 2, e-book readers are more promising from Amazon.com, on Monday (9 / 2) and will be a heavy competitor for Google's new project.

Plan Google Book Search service in the above paper are very promising. In addition to providing online access through a web browser on the computer, the service will also be taken to ranah phone. Google has announced samanya working with the producers iPhone, Apple, mobile phone and printer that use Android for memuluskan plan. Services to search and read books for free now that Google is in completion and will soon be accessible via mobile phone.

Such as' tersengat 'by the announcement about Google Book Search is that, even Amazon.com rush out Kindle 2, e-book readers that promise better performance than previous versions. Step Amazon not less ambitious because he biggest online retail on the Internet that already selling digital books.

The Amazon menggelontorkan plan is one year after their success be calculated with the Kindle version of the first sale. Since a year ago, the Amazon service was successfully selling electronic book is worth 359 U.S. dollars, or about Rp 3.7 million.

Amazon also began to look cellular network. Through the cellular network, e-readers can download books collection that Amazon currently has 230 thousand titles in the Kindle peranti. Ubahnya not besutan Google Book Search, the book is also intended pasarkan via their mobile phone.

See Amazon and Google plan this, kindly e-book market is still quite broad and promising. If this is only for Amazon.com with its Kindle and Sony with the Sony Reader is that playing the market, the future mobile phone vendors are signed in and compete.

The other hand, the findings Barang Association of America Consumer electronics (CEA) is also promising market, that the acquisition of money from the sale of e-book reader increased 265 percent in the year ago. This year, they predict sales will have increased 110 percent.

Source : Kompas

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