BEIJING, June 2 [Xinhuanet]-- Google plans to (launch) a program of selling e-books later this year, a move to compete with e-commerce (leader) Amazon.com Inc., the company confirmed Monday.
Google stated that it aims to build a "digital book (ecosystem)" to allow publishing partners to sell access to their titles, even if buyers don't have (dedicated) book readers.
Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said "by end of this year, we want to build and support a digital book ecosystem to allow our (partner) publishers to make their books available for purchase from any Web-enabled (device)."
A key difference between Google and Amazon would be that the search (giant) aims to let Google Book Search users "buy access" to copyrighted books with any Web-enabled computer, e-reader or mobile phone.
The spokesman also said consumers would not be able to download books in the same way Amazon's customers can buy copies of (specific) titles and store them on their Kindle. Instead, people who access books through Google would be able to read (titles) online and temporarily cache them in their Internet browsers so they could also read them offline.
The advantage for google is its (vast) reach on the Internet because it could in theory highlight relevant books for sale every time a (consumer) punches in a search query.
Publishers will be allowed to set their own prices, (although) google reserved the right to discount titles at its own expense, said the company. Amazon (typically) charges consumers 9.99 dollars per e-book.
Google said it was still in talks with publishers and (specific) details of the project remain to be determined.
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