There are close to 2 million free books and hundreds of thousands of paid books available via the Google ecosystem. You can sample books before you buy them and read them right online. Some major publishers in Germany have also signed onto the platform to distribute their books, such as Random House (Del Rey, DVA, Goldmann, Heyne), Lübbe, CH Beck, Springer, Munich Publishing Group, epubli, GRIN, and Holtzbrinck.
The selection of books right now is fairly lackluster and I would recommend doing business with Txtr (a homegrown Berlin based company) or Amazon.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
