Google Editions, Bookstore in the Cloud, Will Go Live By July

Another disruptive threat to publishing?
Google Editions, the search giant’s “cloud bookstore” of titles available on any device, is slated to go live in June or July, posing an enormous challenge to existing digital bookselling models, continued disruption in the publishing world, and—as was made clear at a panel discussion in New York on May 4—bypassing libraries in the near term.
Google Editions was announced at a conference in Frankfurt in October 2009; Google officials now have a firmer grip on their plans...