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With “Talk to Books”, Google Wants to Replace English Lit Professors

15 April, 2018 // 3 Comments

Google's developed a new way to ask its search engine research questions, and it could make English Lit classes a breeze. Talk to Books is Google's solution to answering fuzzy or nonspecific [Read More ...]

Google Adds Bookmarks, Speed Controls, and More to Audiobooks in Google Play Books App

29 March, 2018 // 0 Comments

Google rolled out an update today for its Play Books app that fixed the frustrating experience of listening to audiobooks in that app shortly after Google started selling audiobooks two months ago. [Read More ...]

Google’s Support for Audiobooks is Frustrating and Disappointing

26 January, 2018 // 3 Comments

Google started selling audiobooks several days ago. If you haven't tried them yet, that is okay because you are better off avoiding Google in favor of a retailer that cares about selling audiobooks [Read More ...]

Knock Me Over with a Feather, Google Play Now Sells Audiobooks

23 January, 2018 // 3 Comments

Google has expanded its lackluster effort to sell books to include audiobooks as well as ebooks. Read more." Every year it’s one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions. But with all the time [Read More ...]

Google to Sell Audiobooks, Teases 50% Off Your First Purchase in Leaked Banner

20 January, 2018 // 3 Comments

Back in November I brought you the news that Google was looking at selling audiobooks in Google Play, and now it appears the launch is imminent. 9to5Google reports that a last night a banner for the [Read More ...]

Google Play Books is Currently Offering a $5 credit

22 December, 2017 // 4 Comments

Google is holding a sale in its ebookstore right now, but only for US customers. If you head over to the Play Store home page right now you will see that one of the offers in the banner is for a 5$ [Read More ...]

Google Is Now Accepting Indie Authors into Play Books (Sometimes, And Only If You Ask Nice)

9 November, 2017 // 9 Comments

When Google closed its publisher portal two and a half years ago in response to massive ebook piracy, they said the move was temporary so they could "improve our content management capabilities and [Read More ...]

Google Play Store to Sell Audiobooks?

3 November, 2017 // 1 Comment

Google doesn't sell a lot of ebooks, and pretty soon they will also not be selling a lot of audiobooks. Android Police pulled part the latest version of the Play Store app and found references to [Read More ...]

About That “Dramatic Growth of Swearing in Books”

14 August, 2017 // 5 Comments

A recently published academic paper has shown that the weakening of censorship inside publishers has lead to a dramatic increase in the use of swear words in American books since 1950. The paper [Read More ...]

Google is Now Selling Snack-Sized eBooks in India

2 February, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hot on the heels of news that Radish had launched a reading service for bite-sized content comes a new report that Google is now selling micro-ebooks in India. There's no public announcement, and you [Read More ...]

Security Hole Discovered in Amazon, Apple, Google eBook Portals

28 January, 2017 // 0 Comments

A security researcher revealed this week that Amazon and other ebook retailers had neglected to patch a fifteen-year-old XML security flaw. From The Register: The similar but separate XML external [Read More ...]

Google Play Books is Renting Harlequin Titles for $.99 a Day

20 January, 2017 // 3 Comments

Early last month Google briefly rented YA titles from HarperCollins for a dollar a day. Now they are running a similar sale on Harlequin titles. The weekly sales email from Google Play Books brought [Read More ...]

19 Months Later, and Google Still Hasn’t Reopened Signups in Its Play Books Publishing Portal

30 December, 2016 // 7 Comments

It has been nineteen months since Google closed its book publisher portal in Google Play Books, and the larger blogosphere is just beginning to realize that it may never reopen. A couple days ago [Read More ...]

Google Play Books is Now Renting YA Titles from Harper Teen

9 December, 2016 // 5 Comments

eBook retailers like Amazon have been renting ebooks since forever, but until this week they only rented digital textbooks. HarperCollins launched a special sale in Google Play Books yesterday. [Read More ...]

Google Adds “Buy eBook” Options to Book Knowledge Panels, But Leaves Out Kindle

5 December, 2016 // 9 Comments

Google frequently shows adverts called "Knowledge Panels" to the right of your search results. They're intended to be a definitive unbiased source of information on a topic, business, or a book, but [Read More ...]

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