Expanding on the remarks we quoted from David Drummond at the NYPL earlier this week, Google Books engineering director Dan Clancy explained further at a session last night how they see the future of electronic books. In short: ebooks will be stored in the cloud, which means that cloud has to be managed by a large, trusted party; physical bookstores need to sell digital books; and you should be able to read your cloud-stored books through any device. “We’re trying to make what would be an open model that encourages competition.” For Clancy’s words: “I believe people want their books […]
