Google Book Store: Google Editions Pros and Cons

Search giant Google is slowly and gradually taking over the internet domain. With its multitude services available, Google is becoming an essential to have computer utility for the common users. Google has been long planning to launch its own digital book store that will have a huge archive of e-books on its platform.

Mountain View California based Search giant has recently been the target of criticism from the governments around the world because of its Google Street Cars violation of privacy. According to the industry analysts, Google has been grabbing some cryptic data that eventually violated the privacy laws and rules.

Now according to a news report released by Wall Street Journal, the internet giant much anticipated online Book store, which the company has been promoting since last summer, is set to release before the end of the year 2010. Google has named this latest online book store as Google Editions. According to the initial reports released by Google, the company’s online book store Google Editions will be having a different marked sales and business model as compared to its competitors: online store giant Amazon’s Kindle store and the Cupertino based tech giant Apple’s iBookstore.

The good thing about this latest Google online book store Google Editions is that users are not bound to purchase books through a single online book account. Google will allow them to buy these books either from Google website or from any independent bookstores anywhere on the internet. Once a book is bought, the user can tie it to any of his Google Account. This thing will enable users to read any kind of books anywhere on any portable or desktop device. Originally, this Google Edition service was supposed to launch somewhere earlier in the year 2010, but because of some reasons that didn’t happen. The company’s Manager for Strategic Development said that the launch was planned somewhere in between June and July 2010.

But a recent statement by the Google’s Product Manager indicates that everything is very much set to be launched by the end of this year and Google Editions will be available for users worldwide in the beginning of the year 2011.

The Product Manager Dougall said in a statement that because of the huge complexity of the project, Google was not planning to release it until it is in some finalized shape. Till this point, Google’s partner for the launching of Google Edition is still not clear and it is also vague what Google will offer to its publishers and independent online bookstores.