SAN FRANCISCO - Google has demonstrated its seriousness in the realm of digital books (e-book) in the past year. Now, the Internet giant has finally released his first e-reader, iRiver Story HD.
E-Reader is finally presented by Google
Produced by the South Korean electronics company iRiver, Story HD will be priced at $ 140 will be marketed starting 17 July. E-reader allows readers to access collections of digital books in Google's library of high-resolution screen and equipped with e-ink and qwerty keyboard.
"Story HD is a new achievement for us, where iriver became the first manufacturer to launch an e-reader which is integrated with Google's ebook," said Google Product Manager Books Pratip Banerji as quoted in Straits Times, Tuesday (12/07/2011).
"E-reader provides access to over-the-air to hundreds of thousands of paid and millions of digital books are provided free of charge by Google," said Banerji.
The presence of e-reader last owned by Google is definitely making the competition between the two other major players, Amazon (Kindle) and Barnes & Noble (Nook), increasingly fierce. Google itself launched an online electronic book store his eBookstore, December 2010.
