eBooks will be full colour (they were scanned in colour)
Social features / sharing margin notes
Seamless reading between devices
Using HTML5, users can also read offline
Simple ereader interface in the browser
Will support DRM and DRM-free content (depending on publisher requirements)
Will allow copy/paste/print or not (depending on publisher requirements)
Revenue split when buying directly from Google Books: 37% to Google, 63% to publisher
Territory rights of the publishers will be respected (not sure how they’re going to do this)
You’re not locked into Google if you buy their books.You can take the files with you if you leave. And devices should be able to access the open-standards data. Google Books is part of the
Data Liberation Front at Google
Ideas: bundling ebook with print book
The Google eReader will launch in 2010, mostly likely in the early part of second half of the year