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Check Out Line: New chapters in book battle
Check out the battles emerging over books. 
Google on Thursday announced plans to offer its own online electronic bookstore, joining a battlefield currently dominated by Amazon.com.
The company plans to sell ebooks for any device with a web browser and its library is expected to start at about half a million books when it is launched in 2010.
The library would compete with the likes of Amazon.com’s Kindle offerings, but the books an be bought from Amazon and Barnesandnoble.com, as well as from Google directly.
Separately, Barnes & Noble is expected to launch its own electronic reader next week. Pictures of that reader on Gizmodo look kind of cool.
Is Amazon’s Kindle DX e-reader hype?
“The new Kindle DX is bigger, but is it better?” asked one headline as gadget reviewers examined the latest electronic reader from Amazon.com.
The verdict: “It isn’t as revolutionary as its promoters might like us to think.”
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