Google to launch remote book downloading platform - USATODAY.com

FRANKFURT (AP) — An executive with Google says the company will launch a new platform next year that lets readers buy books that can be accessed from anywhere, be it a personal computer, cellphone or other platform.

Tom Turvey, the head of Google Books partnership program in North America, Southern America and Asia, said Thursday that the search giant, which launched Google Books in 2004, is "moving to a platform allowing users to buy a book..."