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Google eBooks, explained in video

By Carolyn Kellogg
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Monday morning, Google eBooks got off to a shaky start. The promised app wasn’t yet available in Apple’s iTunes, so no one could try Google eBooks on iPhones, iPads or the iPod Touch. Meanwhile, independent booksellers’ sites weren’t fully online: Some ebooks readily available in Google’s eBook store weren’t showing up at Skylight’s website as they should.

But when all the kinks have been ironed out, Google eBooks will be able to be read anywhere, on anything (except the Kindle). The video above describes how the company imagines books in the cloud will work.

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-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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