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  Google’s eBookstore Opens In Canada

  1123 readersGoogle has opened its eBookstore in Canada. Like the Google’s eBookstore in the U.S. and the UK, the Canadian store includes more than 2 million public domain titles. It also includes publishing partnerships. Mobile Syrup has more: “Google has signed deals with a number of publishers, several representing Canada: McNally Robinson, Penguin, Random House and

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  Google eBooks comes to Canada

  831 readers From the Inside Google Books blog (blockquotes omitted): In the latest chapter of the roll-out of our eBookstore, we’re pleased to announce that Google eBooks has just launched in Canada. Readers there can now access our vast online catalogue, including hundreds of thousands of titles for sale and more than two million free

• Google’s Book Store Is Coming Soon [REPORT]

  2919 readersGoogle Editions, the Internet giant’s book store business promised for last summer, is set to launch before the end of 2010, the Wall Street Journal reports.Google Editions will have a significantly different sales model from most competitors, such…

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  Google Editions To Launch In U.S. This Year

  1224 readersThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google “is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture Google Editions.” Google said earlier this year that Google Editions would launch by the end of summer, but has since b...

• How Independent Booksellers Can Work With Google: VIDEO

  1362 readersScott Dougall, director, product management, Google Books, explains how independent bookstores can use Google to sell eBooks through their stores in this video from BEA. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

• How Independent Booksellers Can Work With Google: VIDEO

  553 readersScott Dougall, director, product management, Google Books, explains how independent bookstores can use Google to sell eBooks through their stores in this video from BEA. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

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  Random House of Canada Ebooks Coming to Canadian Libraries

  1737 readersFrom the press release: Ontario Library Association (OLA) Super Conference — Canadian libraries, schools, and colleges will soon have access to thousands of eBooks from Random House of Canada through OverDrive (www.overdrive.com). With this new distribution agreement, eBooks from McClelland & Stewart and Random House of Canada will be added to OverDrive’s catalog for Canadian

• The Death of Canadian Book Publishing

  1714 readersCultures die symbolically. Canadian culture took a major hit on Monday with the sale of Canada’s most important book publisher, McClelland & Stewart. Canada’s largest university, the University of Toronto, took a gift horse and sold it to the Bertelsmann AG, the fifth-largest book publisher in the world, via its proxy, Random House of Canada. Random House

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  Indie Booksellers Are Suing Amazon & Big 6 Over eBooks

  116 readersThree independent bookstores are suing Amazon along with Random House, Penguin, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, alleging that confidential agreements between the bookseller and the publishers is keeping them from participating fairly in the eBook marketplace. The Huffington Post has the story: “The bookstores making the complaint are the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, based in Albany,

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  Canadian Booksellers Association teams up with Google Books

  867 readers From Good E-reader Blog: Google Books officially hit Canada last month and finally allows us to purchase best sellers and millions of free books. This really makes e-readers like the iRiver Story HD relevant because it used to be USA only and now can be used as a viable alternative to many of the other stores