Google Editions Seen as a Possible Boon to Independent Bookstores

Google Editions, a long-gestating project probably due out relatively soon, is still not very well understood. Most of the details haven't been disclosed, but we're starting to get a general sense of the philosophy behind the project. Google intends for Editions to be much more than, say, the iBookstore, which is tied to one app and one company's hardware. It'll be open and device-agnostic, even more so than Amazon's Kindle store, because all Editions will require is a web browser (Kindle...