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Google, which opened an online bookstore last month, said on Thursday that it has acquired eBook Technologies, a company which makes e-book readers and an e-reading platform.
'Together, we hope to deliver richer reading experiences on tablets, electronic readers and other portable devices,' said a Google spokeswoman. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
With the opening of Google eBookstore in the United States last month, the Internet search giant jumped into the booming e-book market long dominated by Kindle-maker Amazon.
Google eBookstore features the Mountain View, California-based company's massive library of digitised works online at books.google.com.
Hundreds of thousands of digital books from leading publishers such as Macmillan, Random House and Simon & Schuster will be for sale in the eBookstore, which Google said will expand internationally next year.
US spending on e-books is expected to total $1.24b this year, up from $387m last year, and to reach $3.6b in 2015, according to market research firm Forrester.
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