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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[i didn't bother reading this article after i read the first line "Despite the fact that nobody reads anything anymore".<br><br>bite my shiny metal a$$<br>- bender]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bender]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:21AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[What was this article about? I didn't even bother reading it...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:26AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[I don't know, as I didn't read the buttons necessary to click to this page.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sanskrit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:31AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[why do these replies make sense?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SoulinEther]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:37AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[or I can just use the PDF file for the ebook on my phone...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[manifest3r]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:22AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[Really. I never wanted to buy books.. why would I buy ebooks?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SoulinEther]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:36AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[So, you've recognized that you're not in the target demographic. Bravo.<br><br>Want a cookie?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[L]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:40AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[Google already has an ebook reader for Google Books on the iPhone (and assumedly Android).  Not much change needed to open it to "Editions" - right?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ratking]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[I don't get free ebook from Google by seeing 3 lines of ads on each page of the ebook? What have this world become?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[I Think it's Google's Initiative  to take over the world.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chao_Sama]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:48AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[>hopefully there's more to it than just a browser-based reader.<br><br>That's all it is.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carld]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 11:53AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[funny.<br>i think you misrepresented the number of books available from Sony.<br><br>After all, they already have the Google eBooks available for direct download in the Sony eBook Store.<br>From this page:<a href="http://ebookstore.sony.com/google-ebooks/" rel="nofollow">http://ebookstore.sony.com/google-ebooks/</a><br>"Together with Google, Sony brings you access to over a million public domain books for free. Now you can search, browse, and read over a million public domain books preserved by the world's great libraries on your Sony Reader"<br><br>so i would guess the number is a bit higher than 100,000 after all...........<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mikeg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 12:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sony has 100,000 titles *for sale*.  Google will have 400,000 to 600,000 titles *for sale*.  And if they manage to work out a settlement on the Google Books deal that allows them to sell copies of the orphaned works that they've scanned, they'll probably gain close to an order of magnitude on that number, putting them way ahead of their competitors.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 12:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[except you forgot to include that Google will be including their public domain books in the store and they are part of the number being represented here.<br><br>"Today, Google said it will launch its own e-book store in the first half of 2010 called "Google Editions." This store will sell in-print books in addition to its archive of public domain titles, and will be accessible to "any device with a Web browser," not just for the dedicated e-readers that have gained so much notoriety in the past few years."<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[no thanks]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 7:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[400,000 to 600,000 public-domain crap, not books.  Most of those have never been printed books.  Heck, many don't even qualify as a "book" - there are some old magazine ads in there!  Sure, there are some good old classic public-domain books, but you can already get those in digital format for free from other sources (like the Gutenberg library).  Right now Amazon is in the eBook lead with 330,000 *real* books.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreamwriter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 1:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[sorta off topic:<br><br>seeing that there appears to be increasing interest in e-readers, w/kindle, google store, etc, i would guess the rumored apple tablet (if it does exist) will actually be their version of an e-reader.  along w/a bookstore added to itunes.  im sure that'd be an easier product to develop than a fully designed tablet pc.  plus an e-book would further increase apples market, more than a tablet would]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DK]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 2:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[Oh no you mentioned Apple. May God have mercy on your soul. The resident PC heads are on a rampage because someone had the nerve to say Windows 7 is still Windows...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicnac]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 3:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[bool Success;<br>if (can be downloaded in ePub and/or Kindle format) {<br>   Success = true;<br>} else {<br>   Success = false;<br>}<br><br>return Success;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 4:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[HaHaHa!!!! Maybe I am just weird enough to get this.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brdystyls]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 8:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[C'mon, seriously just give us a store that sells books in plan TXT format $5 a pop, I'll be happy to start buying books there. No DRM, can read on almost any device. What's so hard about doing this?!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bratan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 5:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[Non-DRM text files would be pirated so hard and fast it'd make your head spin. It's a nice idea, and I'd like to see it myself, but there's no way it's going to happen any time soon. Maybe, years from now, when the ebook market has matured a lot, we might see something like this.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carld]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 5:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'll buy an ebook reader when they have a decent amount of books.<br><br>Even our university library has 4.5 Million books in their shelves and vaults. The national library around the corner is a whole other story.<br><br>Why I settle for less?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rikki-Tikki-Tavi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 5:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[Perhaps because you can't house an entire library of 4.5M books in your pocket? Perhaps because - regardless of how many books that exist in the library, only a very small percentage of them are actually relevant for you? <br><br>But hell, if it makes you buy an ereader, I'm sure someone out there can generate 22M titles of gramatically correct randomly generated sentences and then it would be 5 times better than your local library because it has 5 times more titles?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Gardner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 16th 2009 12:57AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Google clarifies plans for Google Editions ebook store launching next year]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/google-clarifies-plans-for-google-editions-ebook-store-launching/</guid><description><![CDATA[<br>if japanese is a duble bite language does this mean that google japan will be selling 800,000 to 1,200,000 books?  is my math correct? duh. i want to read google japanese yakuza weekly magazines in the clouds.  ほら！馬鹿野郎てめぇ！　(笑う）<br><br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dublebite]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 16th 2009 7:45AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
