Google on Dec. 16 said that it had expanded its Fast Flip purview to nearly 90 titles. Fast Flip shows that Google is not satisfied with digital books. More broadly, it’s not enough that Google’s Book Search program aims to organize the world’s books, or that Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes Noble’s Nook virtualize the print book reading experience on a handheld device, or that we can similarly read books from our Apple iPhones or Motorola Droid smartphones. Fast Flip attempts to cover the rest of what we like to read.
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News Analysis: When Google launched its Google Fast Flip service for digitizing the way people read
newspapers and magazines Sept. 15, it was a jarring reminder that the future of
publishing, or at least the way we consume content is changing.
Web pages with publishers’ articles are…