Google Play Books is Now Renting Novels Published by Open Road Media
A reader just tipped me to a new section in Play Books that contains around 200 ebooks you can rent (Thanks, Tom!). All the ebooks appear...Continue reading
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Google is Beta-Testing Custom Shelves, Search Features
Do you like trying the newest features before anyone else? I prefer tools that work, but for those who are more adventurous, Google announced a new...Continue reading
Google Play Books Ends Discounting in Canada, Australia, and USA – Now Pays a 70% Royalty
Remember a couple months back when I reported that Google was insisting that authors sign up for an account with Play Books even though the author’s...Continue reading
How to Erase Your Google History (Yes, All of it)
Like Facebook, Google makes most of its money from selling ads, and like FB one way Google tries to make the ads more effective is by...Continue reading
Google Play Books is Cutting Out the Middleman, Now Wants a Direct Relationship with Authors and Publishers
Many authors and publishers use a company such as PublishDrive or Draft2Digital to handle their distribution to smaller ebook retailers. They trade a small cut of...Continue reading
Fourteen Amazing Google Docs Hacks to Make Writing Your Next Novel Easier
Google Docs is a popular word-processing tool that lets you access your documents and files from any internet-connected device. I for one have found it to...Continue reading
How To Write A Book In Google Docs (video)
The above video is the work of Stefanie Newell. It came across my desk courtesy of The Book Designer’s Carnival of the Indies monthly link post,...Continue reading
Google Play Books 5.1.9 Adds Audiobook Download Quality Settings, Custom Skip Duration Settings
When Google started selling audiobooks last January, the Play Books Android app made the experience so frustrating that only masochists would try it more than twice....Continue reading
Did You Know Google Now Limits Search Results to Only 300 to 400 Links?
Here’s something new I learned at the Computers in Libraries conference this week. Google may claim to have indexed a million or more results for the...Continue reading
Google is Sending Out Reminder Emails About Google Plus
Google has been warning users for a couple months now that they plan to shutdown their social network on 2 April, but I guess not everyone...Continue reading
Google Plus is Shutting Down on 2 April
When Google announced last October that they were sunsetting Google+, they didn’t tell us when they were going to turn off the lights. According to the...Continue reading
Google Site Kit Will Make It Easier to Integrate Google’s Services Into WordPress Sites
Between its SEO, traffic analysis, and performance optimization tools (Search Console, Analytics, and PageSpeed Insights, respectively), Google supplies a number of key tools used by just...Continue reading
Google+ Isn’t Shutting Down, But It Will Be Retasked For Enterprise Use
It’s been pretty obvious for a while now that Google’s social network has been so completely abandoned by the public that its remaining users, Google employees, could...Continue reading
How to Download Audiobooks from Google Play Books – DRM-Free!
When Google started selling audiobooks in Play Books back in January I was quick to dismiss their service because the audiobook experience was simply awful. It was...Continue reading
Google Launches a Podcast App for Android
There are currently more podcast-playing apps than you can shake a stick at, but that’s not enough for Google. In its bid to collect as much...Continue reading