Yesterday, Google released their eBooks initiative, a project to make the reading and annotation of books on the web easier and more efficient. Google ostensibly has 3 million books available in their eBook "store," an impressive number to be sure, but Amazon, makers of many fine reading devices and apps, is trying to do them one better by offering current titles (books people actually want to read) available through a web interface. According to a ComputerWorld report, the new website "store" will "enable users to read full books in the browser and [enable] any Website to become a bookstore offering Kindle books." Basically it's a version of the Kindle Reader for the web, presumably with some safeguards in place to prevent piracy.
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