Free ebooks on google software#
Now, the Google e-reader doesn’t offer a lot of functionality considered basic to e-reading software, most of which are available on Amazon’s Kindle reading software or other readers. There’s even a 3-D page turn animation if you simply have to have the virtual feel of reading an actual book.
The e-reader has a night setting, which resets the background to black and the type to white space between lines can be increased as well as style of font (about 6 different kinds) and the text can be set to “scanned”-if you’d like to see the original scanned pages of, say, a 19th century public domain title-as well as the usual “flowing text”. E-books come with cover art, the table of contents can be reached through the settings panel which descends when you tap the center of the screen and shows controls for font size, searching and returning to the in-app library of your titles. Don’t be impatient while the site alerts you the books are downloading, often there’s a delay of a minute or more before you actually see the books show up in the Google Books app on your device.īut once downloaded, the reading software ain't bad.
Free ebooks on google free#
Google eBooks supports both the wholesale and agency pricing models and the store offered e-books at wide variety of prices including the much debated $9.99 faux standard price.Īfter downloading a few sample excerpts and fooling around with the freebies (Google sets each reader up with a couple of free public domain titles, in my case it was Pride and Prejudice and Great Expectations), I bought Amiri Baraka’s Home: Social Essays (Akashic) and Patti Smith’s Just Kids, both for $9.99, although I was charged 89 cents tax for Just Kids, a HarperCollins title. Once in the account click on the Google Books link, then the Google eBookstore link.
Free ebooks on google password#
Downloading was easy and you can use your usual gmail password to activate the app. This reporter did not have access to an iPad, so instead I loaded the Google Books app onto my iPod Touch through the Mac App store. Google eBooks provides the consumer with an online library of every book the consumer buys through Google eBooks, accessible at anytime in anyplace on pretty much any device. Once a consumer has entered credit card information-in this case I set up my purchasing account using a laptop but you can do it on a handheld-you’re ready for a step into the future of e-book reading in the cloud computing era. Google eBooks is offered as a sub-unit of Google Books, which gives the user a list of e-books in their personal online library (once you’ve purchased a few) across the top of a redesigned Google Books search page. In addition, Google eBooks is partnering with independent bookstores and consumers can buy e-books through local stores that have signed on to offer titles through Google eBooks.Īnyone with a gmail account-roughly about 200 million people-has immediate access to buying and downloading books through Google eBooks. Google eBooks is offering access to more than 2 million free public domain digital titles and hundreds of thousands of for-pay e-books-the exact figure is hard to pinpoint-giving the service an inventory of e-book content equal or at least potentially equal to ’s more than 700,000 e-book titles.
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