Google eBookstore, also Goodreads Integration

There are a lot of articles on the bookstore itself as it launched yesterday in the US.

http://books.google.com/ebooks

I've only seen one article (so far) saying that Goodreads is going to link with it.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/google-bookstore/

"Google also hopes to create book-selling widgets that will let books be purchased through its service on any site on the net. It’s starting one such partnership with Goodreads, a leading site for book clubs. Starting Monday, users of that site can click on a book for their reading group straight from Google."

It's early days yet on Google eBooks. You can't, for example, upload epub files you already own to your library, so it is only tracking books you've downloaded or purchased via Google. Anything else you'll have to read on other software platforms.

But it is in the nature of Google to insinuate itself into everything, so I imagine they will be very pro-integration. I could see the day coming where I could look for everything in my "wishlist" collection on LT and automatically find and download free ebook versions if they existed.

If you add books to Your Library on Google Books, will that transfer over to Google eBooks?

As for the list of books in your wishlist collection, try
http://www.librarything.com/profile/MEMBERNAME/stats/ebooks

not unless they are ebooks you've added. Even then I'm not sure.

And yes, I know about the LT ebook link in our stats. But the real question is getting all your ebooks "readable" in one place. Right now, that's not Google. So epub files are scattered across several platforms, and if I go shopping for them I can't tell at a glance if the ebook I'm looking at on Google is one I already have somewhere else. Tedious.

Interesting,

Quite by accident I was on Google Books site yesterday looking for a reference and discovered I could now purchase the book. It will be interesting to see what effects it has on the e-reader market. It supports a number of platforms but not Kindle. And it had this interesting slightly threatening little note about Kindle: Currently, Google eBooks are not compatible with Amazon Kindle devices, though we are open to supporting them in the future.. They do support Nook, Sony, Kobo, and iPad, iPhone, and desktop platforms. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future. I currently use a Kindle, which I love; however, I do not feel particularly wedded to any device.

Note also this is a US ONLY release. Anywhere else in the world and you can't read/buy/get them.

Again talks of future plans for worldwide access. but no dates. Just how joined up is internet thinking?

#3 - Thanks for that link! I'm new to the eReading world but somehow that falls under the shamefully long list of things I never knew LT could do!