After recently taking on Facebook in the crowded social networking [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Google seems ready, willing and able to fight a war of two fronts against both Amazon and Facebook, with the Story HD. This device is designed to be competition for Apple’s iBook as well as the Kindle- two popular devices already dominating in the virtual marketplace.

After recently taking on Facebook in the crowded social networking website market, it seems that Google is looking to take on the might of Amazon at the same time.

The company has launched an e-book reader that will target the same market as the Kindle and iBook.

The Story HD will be released in America over the weekend and will have a full QWERTY keyboard, and weigh just over 205 grams, measuring at under a centimetre in thickness.

The screen of the Story HD is of high resolution and has more pixels than its competitors for a sharper picture, as well as a battery that can last up to 6 weeks before needing to be recharged. These are factors that Pratip Banerji hopes will give the new eBook reader an edge over the competition.

There are lots of options available in this market, as competing companies are constantly looking for ways to improve existing products, and how to gain the advantage over the other guy, by offering some type of superior product or service. That is what Story HD is trying to do; taking the market by storm and toppling the competitors who already have a name for themselves.

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Google filed suit on Thursday defending a settlement they made for $125m with US publishers and authors a little [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Google Inc. is planning to head to take the US Department of Justice to court in order to see if they can get access to the rights of millions of books without breaking copyright or antitrust laws.

Google filed suit on Thursday defending a settlement they made for $125m with US publishers and authors a little over a year ago.  According to Google, the settlement allows them to publish books without breaking the law.

According to Google, every suggestion from the US Justice Department has been followed expect for one.  Among the contentions within the filing is a rebuttal from the Justice Department that the settlement will undermine copyright law and reduce the competition in the book market.

Google’s corporate rivals, the Open Book Alliance, rejected the arguments made by Google stating that even though the attorneys for Google have spun the truth of the settlement, the company will still allow Google exclusive access to books that it has scanned without permission.

In response Google has revised its plan in the hopes of persuading the US District Judge Denny Chin that the opponents of the settlement are wrong.  Lawyers from the popular online company stated that copyright law is meant to promotion distribution and creation of works and that the settlement will help forward this purpose as much as any other distribute method in the history of copyright.

The decision to take on the US Justice Department is a big risk for Google given that it will raise the interest of antitrust regulators in Google and its advertising system, which is responsible for most of the revenue the company earns.

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