eWeek reports that Google is planning to sell books online. However, instead of shipping books like Amazon, Google plans to make texts available online, likely in a similar fashion to its Google Video service.

According to Google, the Internet search engine will soon let book publishers in the United States and United Kingdom choose which tomes offer, then split the revenues with Google. The books cannot be downloaded onto a computer. Rather, each is only available online. So far, publishers Taylor & Francis and Netherlands-based Brill were expected to be among those offering books for sale through Google Books.