Google has agreed to set up a Books Rights Registry through which authors could register their works and get compensation but no ruling from the US court looking at the case has yet been handed out. Google eBooks, formerly known as Google Editions, has been launched in the US on Monday (December 6, 2010). Google also hopes to write itself a substantial chapter in the digital books story with the launch of its own store. It will allow users to download three million e-books to a range of devices. It will put it head-to -head with Amazon, which links its Kindle device to its own store, and Apple with its iBookstore. The launch of the service has been delayed, due to legal and technical wrangles. But Google is hopeful that its "device agnostic" store will rewrite the current generation of digital books. "It benefits authors because they will be able to be more visible and more accessible than with the physical constraints of a book store," said Santiago de la M...
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