Shopping Yahoo! hits the eBooks

Yahoo expects a growing demand for ebooks and has therefore for its Yahoo! Shopping online commerce destination, a new category eBooks with titles of the four major publishers (Pnguin Putnam, Simon & Schuster, Random reported pants open and HarperCollins CNN:

Technology will make it convenient for consumers to access digital content and that will push demand for e-books, Rob Solomon, VP and general manager of Yahoo! Shopping said in a statement.

While e-books have yet to be widely embraced, the publishers are hoping to position themselves in the digital market in anticipation of going mainstream e-books, the companies said.

Consumers will be able to download books from Yahoo! shopping in either Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Reader eBook platforms. Both programs are free and can be downloaded from links on Yahoo! shopping, the company said.

The service is currently only available in the U.S.