Today, Google Play Books is launching Beta Features, which gives our users early access to experimental features. These features are opt-in only on the web and may lack a bit of polish, but could evolve, improve, disappear or transform into new Play Books product updates. While they’re experimental, they're designed to test and improve the user experience. Head to … [Read more...] about Google Play Books Launches Beta Features
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Amazon and Google have the last Cloud Readers
The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader and Google Play Books Cloud Reader systems allow users to read ebooks they have downloaded for free or purchased in all of the major internet browsers. The provide fully functional e-reading experiences where the text, spacing, margins and fonts can be changed. Barnes and Noble and Kobo had their own online readers that they ran for a few years, … [Read more...] about Amazon and Google have the last Cloud Readers
Google Audiobooks introduces Trim Silences
Google Play Books is the only way you can listen to audiobooks purchased from Google and they just introduced a new feature called Trim Silences. This function will automatically truncate long pauses between words or sentences. Most audiobooks are professionally made and remove this sort of thing by default, but some small presses and indie authors often have pauses, so Trim … [Read more...] about Google Audiobooks introduces Trim Silences
Google Reopens their Play Books Publisher Program
The Google Publisher Program allowed independent authors and small presses to sell ebooks in the Google Play bookstore. When the program was active it become a cesspool of piracy. Fake authors would sell ebooks they never wrote and publishing companies would rename all of the main characters in Harry Potter or 50 Shades of Grey and would peddle them off as their own original … [Read more...] about Google Reopens their Play Books Publisher Program
These are the top Google Play Books and Audiobooks for March 2018
Every month Google hypes up the top five audiobooks and ebooks of the month. This gives us an indication on what people are buying on the platform. Google has a paltry 2% market share of the entire US ebook industry and around 4% of the international market. [BEST_SELLER_LISTING] … [Read more...] about These are the top Google Play Books and Audiobooks for March 2018
Google Play Books is Providing $5 Credit on any Book Over $5
Google Play Books is running a rare promotion where if you spend over $5 on an e-book you will receive $5 in credit. The credit that you earn can only be applied to eligible book titles with an on store price of over $5.01 or more before tax is imposed. Google has created a special landing page on their bookstore and it has a revolving list of hundreds of titles from major … [Read more...] about Google Play Books is Providing $5 Credit on any Book Over $5
Google Play Books Now Available in the Middle East
Google has just made their Google Play Books e-reading system available in 9 different countries in the Middle East. This is the first time Google has expanded into international markets since early 2015, when widespread piracy hampered their platform. If you live in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates you can now … [Read more...] about Google Play Books Now Available in the Middle East
Google Play Books Introduces new Night Reading Feature
Google Play Books has undergone a radical update and it will make reading at night much more enjoyable. Night Light is technology will automatically adjust the background depending on the time of day you are reading an e-book. The Google Night Light feature was heavily borrowed from the technology that Oyster developed for their unlimited e-book subscription platform. This … [Read more...] about Google Play Books Introduces new Night Reading Feature
Google Play Books Receives Comic Friendly Update
Google Play Books is going to be receiving a new update for Android and iOS in the coming days. One of the big new enhancements is infinite scrolling while in landscape mode. This will allow you to endlessly swipe downwards to read the next pages, instead of the normal page turn gestures. Additionally, Google is rolling out a newly created curated comic experience where they … [Read more...] about Google Play Books Receives Comic Friendly Update
How to Download Google Play eBooks and Transfer them to your e-reader
The Google Play eBook store comes bundled on every Android device and many people use it to purchase digital content. Sometimes though, you might not want to use the app, but your trusted e-reader. Today, we would like to give you a solid step by step guide on how you can download your books from Google and transfer them to whatever e-reader you own. Google sells eBooks in … [Read more...] about How to Download Google Play eBooks and Transfer them to your e-reader