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...Continue reading
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Security Hole Discovered in Amazon, Apple, Google eBook Portals
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 entity...Continue reading
Google Play Books is Renting Harlequin Titles for $.99 a Day
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...Continue reading
19 Months Later, and Google Still Hasn’t Reopened Signups in Its Play Books Publishing Portal
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....Continue reading
Google Play Books is Now Renting YA Titles from Harper Teen
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. They’re...Continue reading
Google Contributor Stops Accepting New Signups, Will Relaunch Next Year
Google Contributor, a program which turned a website’s visitors into its advertisers, is no longer open to new participants. The program’s status changed with little fanfare yesterday, and the site...Continue reading
Google Adds “Buy eBook” Options to Book Knowledge Panels, But Leaves Out Kindle
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,...Continue reading
Google Announces the Best Books of Google Play for 2016
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...Continue reading
Google Play Newsstand Goes the Facebook Route, Adds Algorithmic Filters
Rightly or wrongly, the social media filter bubble in general and Facebook’s algorithms in particular are blamed for presenting a distorted view of the world which shield users from both...Continue reading
You Can Now Give Away eBooks From the Google Play Books App & Store
For the longest time Google’s only option for gifting ebooks or other digital content was a gift card for the Play Store(*), but this week they started to fix that....Continue reading
Did You Know You Can Embed eBooks from Google Books on a Website?
An interesting trick crossed my desk today. Did you know it is possible to take an ebook from Google Books and embed it on on a webpage? Google has supported this...Continue reading
Time to Geek Out: Google Docs Now Supports Regular Expressions
It’s time to get your RegEx on, because Google has updated the web version of Google Docs with support for regular expressions. For those not familiar with the term, regular expressions are...Continue reading
Google’s Project Ara Has Been Shelved, Will be Salvaged for Parts
Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push to streamline the company’s...Continue reading
Google is Once Again Cracking Down on Interstitial, Pop-Up Adverts
Interstitial and pop-up adverts (like the one Google uses to harass mobile users of Gmail) are the bane of mobile browsing. 69% of a website’s mobile visitors will leave if...Continue reading
Google Play Family Library Lets (Some) Share eBooks, Other Content
Google formally announced the launch of its family library sharing plan today, showing that early reports of Google Play Family Library’s flawed design were greatly exaggerated. Google announced on its...Continue reading