Google announced that it is now indexing .epub documents, a format commonly used to print books for e-readers. Google is already showing EPUB books in the search index. EPUB is an XML-based eBook ...

Google (GOOG) made its first acquisition of the season: eBook Technologies, Inc. (ETI). The company has already pulled down most aspects of its web site other than the notice of the acquisition, but ...

Google have updated their ebook project with the ability to download titles in EPUB format, the same file type as Sony recently switched to with its new range of ebook Reader devices. It means that in ...

Google Search can now index Electronic Publication, the .epub, file type. Google added EPUB as a supported filetype to the file types indexable by Google help documentation. This was added over the ...

Google started the new year with a new purchase of a small and relatively unknown company, eBook Technologies. The new purchase only fueled rumors of Google's plans to expand on the ebook market.

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