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Sony Reader Gets 500,000 New Book Titles From Google

by Peter Mychalcewycz on March 20, 2009 at 06:04 AM


It's a good time to be a Sony Reader owner.

Google has just made 500,000 titles from its massive public-domain book collection accessible to users of Sony's popular e-book reader. This is the first time Google has made these resources available to such a device, effectively pushing Sony's Reader past Amazon's Kindle (which offers about 240,000 titles) in terms of books available for the device.

All of the public-domain titles were published before 1923, but include many classics of fiction and non-fiction. It's a big day for literature lovers everywhere, since you can now finally unfetter H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" from the Google-hosted PDF version and take it with you in the new Electronic Publication Format (EPUB). Your move, Amazon. [From: thestreet]


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