Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones

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Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones



By MIGUEL HELFT February 6, 2009



SAN FRANCISCO - More electronic books are coming to mobile phones.



In a move that could bolster the growing popularity of e-books, Google said Thursday that the 1.5 million public domain books it had scanned and made available free on PCs were now accessible on mobile devices like the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1.



Also Thursday, Amazon said that it was working on making the titles for its popular e-book reader, the Kindle, available on a variety of mobile phones. The company, which is expected to unveil a new version of the Kindle next week, did not say when Kindle titles would be available on mobile phones.



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