Google launches online bookstore for Canada

Google has just launched eBooks for Canada  at http://books.google.ca/ebooks. The Google eBooks platform is designed to be open and in the cloud, meaning users can pick up on their eBook wherever they last left off on virtually any device: PCs and netbooks; Android and Apple tablets and smartphones; and compatible eReaders, like the Kobo, Reader™ from Sony, and Barnes & Noble Nook.

Hundreds of thousands of titles will be available for purchase at the
Google eBookstore - not to mention many classics and over 2 million public
domain books already available for free. This service is also launching as ‘Books’

in the Android Market.

Supporting Canada’s Independent Retailers
Google believes Canadians should have access to the books they want, should
be able to read books on the device they want, and should be able to buy
books from the bookstore they want. That's why Google developed a platform
open to Canada’s independent retailers who want sell their books online.
 Google has partnered with McNally Robinson, a Winnipeg-based independent
bookstore and the Kingston-based Campus Bookstore, and we’re open to other
retailers who wants to sell their books online. We're offering Canada's
Independent bookstores the tools they need to join the digital economy.

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With this new service, Google offers Canadian and international publishers
an additional way to promote, distribute and sell their content to
Canadians through Google eBooks, a digital books ecosystem. The Google
eBookstore has partnerships with all major Canadian publishing houses and a
catalogue full of Canada’s best known authors. We currently have agreements
with Penguin, Random House and Harper Collins, plus Canada’s largest
publishers including House of Anansi, Dundurn and McGill Queens University.