Google is talking with makers of educational software to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, an industry whose value may approach $5 billion this year.
Games and instructional tools for teachers from companies such as San Francisco’s Grockit Inc.
and Aviary Inc. are already offered in the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store that opened in March.
Google seeks to lure more educational developers, company executives said.
Software sales for colleges and kindergarten through 12th grade this year should surpass the $4.6 billion in 2009, according to Parthenon Group LLC, and become a growth area for Google, which gets most of its revenue from search advertising.
The company works with schools, providing free word processing, e-mail and spreadsheet programs.
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