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It’s not particularly convenient to read cookbooks, travel guides and other reference works as ebooks. Google is hoping to change that. Read more »
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It’s not particularly convenient to read cookbooks, travel guides and other reference works as ebooks. Google is hoping to change that. Read more »
In a story making the rounds on the internet, a Georgetown professor lost a bunch of books he’d downloaded from Google when he traveled to Singapore. But this isn’t an example… Read more »
Google has launched a digital textbooks section of the Play store. So far, the section has fewer textbooks available than Amazon or Barnes & Noble, but the selection should increase over… Read more »
Google is now selling ebooks in The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania. Read more »
Google added new Japanese reading features to its ebooks app yesterday and is now selling the Nexus 7, ebooks and movies through the Google Play store in Japan. Kobo expanded to… Read more »
Google is adding some new features to its Android ebooks app, including highlighting and annotation, translation, dictionary definitions and geographic information. Google Play Books for iOS lacks these features for now. Read more »