Never mind its experiments with snippets and the occasional freebutoldorodd novel sometime this summer, Google is going to become a proper digital bookseller.

A strategic partner development manager at the company said today that it will go into business by launching a site called Google Editions.Chris Palma spoke at Random Houses offices in Manhattan, which is one indicator of how important this development may be. Another is the title of the event The Book on Google Is the Future of Publishing in the Cloud?Anyway, Jessica E.