Google, Amazon Pushing E-Books to Phones
Don’t want to buy an Amazon Kindle but like the idea of e-books? New moves by both Google and Amazon can help.
Google, which already has 1.5 million public domain books available for free viewing on PCs, on Thursday made them all available for reading on cell phones, specifically the iPhone and, of course, the G1.
The same day, Amazon said it’s working to offer cell phone versions of some titles already available for its Kindle e-reader, reports the New York Times.
Amazon, which has some 230,000 titles formatted for the Kindle, hasn’t said when any will be ready for mobile phones, just that it has plans.
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