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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 ...]

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 ...]

Google Announces the Best Books of Google Play for 2016

1 December, 2016 // 4 Comments

With the year drawing to a close, Google announced its annual "Best of 2016" lists on Thursday. The ad network has assembled Google Play’s Best of lists by searching out the most popular apps, [Read More ...]

Google Play Family Library is a Bass-Ackward Way to Share eBooks, Other Content With Up to Six People

13 July, 2016 // 5 Comments

Google has finally taken the covers off its family library system for its Google Play services, and the feature is just as badly designed as when we first heard about it in December 2015. The way [Read More ...]

Google Play Reveals Its Best-Selling eBooks, Videos, and Games for 2015

4 December, 2015 // 3 Comments

Google has released its year-end "best of" lists for Google Play this week. You can find the lists on a special page in the Google Play Store, and for the sake of convenience I have added the top ten [Read More ...]

Google Play Books is a Safe Haven for Commercial eBook Piracy

4 May, 2015 // 57 Comments

Piracy is endemic to almost every retail site which sells digital content. Some sites such as Amazon routinely (and sometimes aggressively) police their catalog for pirated content, while others [Read More ...]

Google Adds Human App Review Process, Adopts Country-Sensitive Ratings

17 March, 2015 // 2 Comments

Google may operate the second largest app store in the world and serve a billion people in over 190 countries, but for the longest time that store was allowed to operate under Wild West rules. Just [Read More ...]

Google to Show Sponsored Apps in Google Play Search Results – Will eBooks Be Next?

26 February, 2015 // 8 Comments

Google has long sold the lead spots in its search results to advertisers, and now they're expanding that practice to Google Play. The ad network has announced that some time in the next few weeks it [Read More ...]

Google Play Books Updated with New Skim Mode, Better Support for Non Fiction

30 October, 2014 // 0 Comments

Google first got its start in ebooks with the often maligned book scanning project, and with the latest update to Google Play Books it is returning to its academic roots. The tech giant announced a [Read More ...]

Google Play Books Launches In Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, And the Ukraine

24 September, 2014 // 6 Comments

Google might not be expanding their ebookstore at quite the same pace as last year but they haven't stopped. Following the June expansion into Luxembourg, Norway, and 11 Latin American countries, [Read More ...]

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