| Google, being the smart and powerful business they | | | | offering an alternative to the popular Amazon Kindle. |
| are, have decided to launch a service for selling | | | | Rather than having books that can be read on a |
| electronic books that can be read directly on portable | | | | device that must be purchased readers are now able |
| handsets like the HTC Cell Phones with android | | | | to have a books come to the device which they |
| software. They are expecting to have some | | | | already own, the HTC Cell Phones and other |
| half-million books in electronic form and ready for | | | | smartphones. It is another idea which is increasing the |
| purchase at the time of writing this article. They | | | | dominance of Google in electronics as a whole. What |
| consider themselves to be more of a book distributor | | | | started with a search engine has suddenly blossomed |
| or wholesaler and nothing more; they are the middle | | | | into a company that has a competitive smartphone on |
| man between the electronic book and the tech-savvy | | | | the market, popular smartphone software on the |
| reader. | | | | market as well as ownership of many prominent |
| The Google division is known as Google Editions and is | | | | internet companies today. |