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google-ebook

Google is planning to release an ebook store with over 400,00 books online. You can either walk down to you local library to read a book or just google it. With google coming up with yet to say more books, there need not to worry about book availability in libraries. Amazon has a smiler service but unlike them google’s Ebook should be usable on any device.

Google Editions will utilise three business models;

• The first will allow consumers to purchase directly from Google EBooks. This model would gives Google a 37% share of the sale, with the rest going to the publisher.
• The second model would consist of purchases made from partner retailers, with Google getting 55% of the sale.
• The last model Google is looking at will have customers going directly to a publisher’s website to make purchases. No decisions have been made on the split for this option.

This service should be arriving early 2010 so, surfs up.

Remember those days with portable pet keyrings, now you can have a portable fish tank. Some chineese guy has made a video showing a waterproof LG GD900 Crystal in a fish tank. Have you ever watched Simpsons where ‘Disco Stu’ had those see through shoes with dead fish inside. He couldn’t take them out, watch this video below…

Looks like the phone still works after this sort-of-upsetting experement, the fish did survive as he put them back into the fish tank. Disco Stu is not a figure to be emulated. This video was probably a promotional stunt by a random guy. What do you think?