In un articolo (in inglese) sul New York Times, Envisioning the Next Chapter for Electronic Books, si parla del lancio di iniziative di Amazon e Google relativamente a reader (lettori) e commercio online di libri (e fumetti) elettronici:
(..) Two new offerings this fall are set to test whether consumers really want to replace a technology that has reliably served humankind for hundreds of years: the paper book. In October, the online retailer Amazon.com will unveil the Kindle, an electronic book reader (..) Also this fall, Google plans to start charging users for full online access to the digital copies of some books in its database, according to people with knowledge of its plans. Publishers will set the prices for their own books and share the revenue with Google. So far, Google has made only limited excerpts of copyrighted books available to its users. Amazon and Google would not comment on their plans, and neither offering is expected to carve out immediately a significant piece of the $35-billion-a-year book business.(..)
