British e-reader company in partnership with Google BooksInteread, the British company behind the COOL-ER electronic reader, announced a partnership with Google on Wednesday to add more than one million public domain books to its online bookstore. Interead said out-of-copyright works scanned by the Internet giant would be available for free through the Coolerbooks.com website. "We?re extremely proud to be the first ebookstore outside the US to partner with Google Books and we hope that the collaboration will make the appeal and accessibility of ebooks broader than ever," Interead founder Neil Jones Neil Jones (born February 16, 1982) is a New Zealand soccer player who plays as a striker. He currently is assistant coach at the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos. Jones is a member of the New Zealand national team, known as the All Whites. He collected 2 caps (1 goal) in 2004. said. Interead makes the COOL-ER e-reader, a rival to Amazon's Kindle A portable e-book device from Amazon.com that provides wireless connectivity to Amazon for e-book downloads as well as Wikipedia and search engines. Using Sprint's EV-DO cellphone network, dubbed WhisperNet, wireless access is free. It also includes a built-in dictionary. and the Sony Reader The Sony PRS-500 Reader is an e-book reader for the U.S. market. It uses an electronic paper display developed by E Ink Corporation, that has 166 dpi resolution, four levels of grayscale, is viewable in direct sunlight, requires no power to maintain the image, and is usable in . The COOL-ER supports 19 document formats including ePub and PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. and comes in eight colors. It sells for 249 dollars in the United States. Sony announced a partnership with Google in March to make copyright-free books available on its e-reader while Amazon offers more than 300,000 titles for the Kindle through its online bookstore. Google has been scanning millions of books in the world's libraries as part of its controversial Google Book Search This article or section contains information about computer software currently in development. The content may change as the software development progresses. project. 
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