{"id":10035,"date":"2009-10-15T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-15T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T11:26:00","slug":"google-editions-here-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/10035-google-editions-here-in-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Editions here in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Turvey, the head of Google Books partnership program in North America, Southern America and Asia, said Thursday that the search giant, which launched Google Books in 2004, is &#8220;moving to a platform allowing users to buy a book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 61st Frankfurt Book Fair, Turvey said Google Editions would be launched during the first half of 2010 and the publisher would set the price.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a browser-based access,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The way the e-book market will evolve is by accessing the book from anywhere, from an access point of view and also from a geographical point of view.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turvey said the company will start with between 400,000 and 600,000 books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=197443\"><strong>Google Editions discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An executive with Google says the company will launch a new platform next year that lets readers buy books that can be accessed from anywhere, be it a personal computer, cell phone or other platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}