Google's Editions E-Bookstore To Chase Apple, Amazon, in June

With what may be seen as curious timing, Google's just revealed that soon it'll be selling digital books through its own Google Editions store. The search giant is obviously keen to not let Apple and Amazon dominate an industry it hasn't also wrapped a tentacle around.

Google's been mulling this sort of move for over a year, and it ties in with its Google Books effort to try to reinvent publishing as a cloud-based marketplace. Speaking at the Book Industry Study Group (which explains the...