Google and Sony team up against Amazon in e-book deal
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Feb
09
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Amazon has been a dominant force in the e-book market with the help of its wireless reading device called Kindle. It was first launced in 2007 as a way of wirelessly reading e-book content which was downloadable from Amazon. The partnership of Google and Sony will prove to be a bitter blow to Amazon as Google will make available 500 thousand public domain books for Sonys E-Reader. Before this deal Sony's book offering was less than half that of Amazon's and no doubt will profit greatly from Google's dominance.