The ebook market may be fixated on the Amazon Kindle at the moment, but that doesn’t mean Sony is giving up on its own Reader Digital Book: the company announced today that it has partnered with Google so its own eBookstore now provides free access to more than half a million public domain titles via Google Books. The move boosts the number of titles available from Sony’s eBookstore from just over 100,000 to over 600,000, and includes many classics from authors like Mark Twain and Jane Austen, as well as a number of titles, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other languages. Users with eBookstore accounts will be able to download the titles to PRS-505 or PRS-700 readers at no cost.
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Google Book Search For iPhone and Android
If you’ve ever dreams of reading literary classics on your iPhone or Android device instead of buying a Kindle or working to shoehorn free etexts onto your phone, Google has some good news for you: the company has launched a mobile version of Google Book Search (point your phones here) that provides mobile access to more than 1.5 million public domain books—at least in the United States. (Outside the U.S., selection is currently limited to half a million titles.)


