This article was posted on Reuters US, December 12th, 2009.

“Search giant Google, which is making forays into the book world, would happily sell books to readers who own Kindles or other e-readers, said Google Books engineering director Dan Clancy on Friday.

Google, which plans to launch Google Editions next year with something like half a million titles, will be selling titles to be read on laptops, netbooks or any device that can reach the Internet.

That leaves out the owners of Amazon’s Kindle, but it wouldn’t have to, Clancy told Reuters

If Amazon allowed Kindle users to buy from Google Editions it would be easy for the two companies to set up the sales, Clancy said.”