Close on the heels of the launch of its e-book store in Brazil, Amazon announced the launch of its Kindle e-book store in China last Thursday.

FORBES: Amazon Can Drive Big Kindle Growth With China Launch

Like many people, my buddy Lindy has a work e-mail address and uses Microsoft Outlook to read and store e-mails.

FORBES: Serve Your Customer. It Pays Off. Big Time.

Instead of purchasing e-books through a single online store to read only on compatible software (i.e. books bought from the Kindle Store can only be read on Kindle apps), Google lets consumers buy books either from its store or any other online vendor that sells books in EPUB and PDF formats, and read them on any device with a web browser.

FORBES: Google's E-bookstore Has Arrived