Category: Technology Author : JR Posted: February 6, 2009
Tags : amazon, amazon kindle, android, e-books, ebooks, google, google book search, google books iphone, iphone
Good news, smartphone users: Google is now making thousands of e-books available for mobile download, for free.
The newly launched Google Book Search for mobile is available for all iPhone and Android-based device users. All you have to do is navigate over to books.google.com/m, and you can browse through subjects or search for specific authors or titles. Already, more than 1.5 million books are available.
Google Book Search on the Web had been around for a while. The new thing here is really the formatting — the books are now optimized for smartphone reading. Google engineers explain what they had to do go through to make that happen in the official Google Book Search Blog, if you’re interested.
Sorry, Kindle, but with the introduction of this — not to mention the availability of relatively inexpensive mobile services like eReader and BookShelfLT — your market is suddenly looking a lot less bright.
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Feb 6, 2009
I know Amazon is hating Google about now. This is right before they launch Kindle 2
Feb 6, 2009
Have you notice something? All books are 100 years old or even more. I hope they wont start advertising on those pages as it would be wrong to make money from authors books that are dead long time ago. But looks like nobody seems to care about that since books are “Free”.
I sometimes wonder what is “Free”
Mar 2, 2009
This is great.
Sep 27, 2010
It is great news and I hope that other people are also feeling the same because it is really important and useful facility that google is going to provide. Most of all people like to use E-book because they are easy to find and comfortable to prefer and read.
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Dec 29, 2010
ever tried reading on a phone? It’s rubbish. The kindle is a much better experience.
Jul 11, 2011
Today Google and electronic device maker iRiver has announced first e-reader (Iriver) integrated with Google E-Book.
http://techflipper.com/google-announced-first-integrated-e-reader-with-google-e-bookiriver/
Nov 23, 2011
YA UR RIGHT.
Nov 27, 2011
An excellent!
Dec 5, 2011
can ebook reader read a HTML form?