Google has started selling digital books; it offers three million titles

San Francisco - The American internet giant Google today began selling digital books to strengthen its position in competition with rivals Amazon and Apple. Its new online store, Google eBooks, offers three million titles, ranging from the latest bestsellers to free books whose copyright has expired, the company announced today.
    Consumers can save titles from Google in a personal online library managed by the company and then read them on various devices.
    Currently, Amazon.com holds the dominant position in the e-book market, which it helped develop in 2007 when it launched the Kindle reading device. According to a Forrester Research survey, it has approximately two-thirds market share in the American e-book market.
    Apple entered this market earlier this year. It sells electronic versions of books that can be read on its iPad tablet computer.
    Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey adds that Google has a better chance of displacing Barnes and Noble from the second spot in e-book sales rather than surpassing first-place Amazon. He adds that the Kindle brand is solid, its devices are elegant, and moreover, very cheap, wrote the Reuters agency.