Back in August 14th, I wrote a post about Sony’s movement to support the open e-book format, EPUB, on its book reading device. Google Books has announced that it will now provide its digital domain book library in the EPUB format. Read more about how EPUB is created on their blog.
Although Google Books only provide old books with expired copyright, consumers will be able to read them on any devices that will support EPUB format in future. Not only that, the size of characters can also be optimized for different reading devices since it’s not just a photocopy of books.
This announcement will not immediately kill the sales of Amazon Kindle as Google Books only offers books in public domain. However, Sony could certainly take an advantage of offering free books in EPUB format on top of it’s new digital book sales.
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