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Jeff Bezos's mission: Compelling small publishers to think big

In the face of Kindle price cuts and wild iPad sales, Jeff Bezos is taking Amazon into new markets and onto every device he can. Will it be enough?

Jeff Bezos has been dismissed before. For most of the dot-com boom, he was assumed to be a one-shot wonder, inches away from having his bookstore, Amazon.com, (AMZN) extinguished by Wal-Mart (WMT). Now, with Apple's (AAPL) mad rush into books and MORE

Google enters digital book store war

Google will launch a digital book store as early as next month that takes on Amazon,  Apple  and Barnes & Noble with Google 'Editions'.

Chris Palma,  manager for strategic-partner development at Google, announced the new service at  Random House's Manhattan offices at an event sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group.  The title of his presentation was called "The Book on Google: Is the Future of Publishing in the Cloud?"

Google's vision of MORE