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Android Market Opens Book Store

February 25, 2011 at 7:15 am PT

Now that Motorola’s Xoom, the first tablet to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, has begun shipping, Google is finally lighting up the e-books section of Android Market.

An outpost of the Ebookstore it launched last December, the Android Marketplace Books is the first of a handful of new offerings expected to make the digital storefront more competitive with iTunes. Two more expected additions: music and movies.

Tagged with: Android Market, Apple, Google, innovation, Internet, iTunes, John Paczkowski, Motorola, Xoom

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Anonymous

It has really damaged their brand. In 2005, their brand was golden. People thought they invented the Internet. Now, when they complained that Bing copied them, there was a guffaw heard round the world.

They really do not get that your brand is anthropomorphized into a personality. The projects that a company brands are a kind of communication.

I don’t even use their search engine anymore. Blekko is a joy to use, like Google was in 2003.
Anonymous

Please, that is not fair. Google invented Google Wave. They did not copy it from Apple. And it did fine, for a while.
http://blog.macb.net macbeach

Isn’t this a bit like saying Microsoft stole the idea of a mouse interface from Apple when in fact they both stole it from Xerox PARC?

Apple has done some great things in *perfecting* these ideas, but few, if any of them were totally new concepts.

Google announced they were working on phone long before they had a product and their book scanning work (which did more to serve public domain interests than Google’s own) was seriously held back by competitors launching nuisance lawsuits.

How much will it cost me to store all my files in the Apple cloud if they ever get it up and running by the way?