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In July 2013, Google made some changes to the publisher policy page for Google Play Books, removing mentions of book bundle pricing, and adding several mentions of ebook rentals. Google also dropped support for a wide variety of ebook file formats it used to accept, including DOC, XML, HTML, MOBI and PDB, to focus primarily on the EPUB format. [20]
Global availability of Google Play Books. Google Play Books is an ebook digital distribution service. Google Play offers over five million ebooks available for purchase, [15] and users can also upload up to 1,000 of their own ebooks in the form of PDF or EPUB file formats. [16] As of January 2017, Google Play Books is available in 75 countries ...
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
Google Books tries to make users register a Google account and access books only while logged in, both to make user monitoring easier and to direct users to its paid Google Play offering. It's impossible to know whether in the future an URL which currently works for everyone will become subject to registration or payment: for instance, certain ...
Google Opinion Rewards is a loyalty program developed by Google. It was initially launched as a survey mobile app for Android and iOS developed by Google. The app allows users to answer surveys and earn rewards. On Android, users earn Google Play credits which can be redeemed by buying paid apps from Google Play. On iOS, users are paid via PayPal.
In September 2015, Google acquired Oyster. [2] No terms were disclosed but speculation put the price at somewhere between $20 million and $30 million. [3] As a part of the acquisition it was reported that the founders would be leading Google Play Books in New York. In conjunction with the acquisition, Oyster shut down its existing service in ...
The contents of the Google eBooks page were merged into Google Play Books. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history ; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page .
Literata is a serif typeface commissioned by Google and designed by the independent type foundry TypeTogether. It was released in 2015 and is the default font family in Google Play Books, since version 3.4.5. The typeface was inspired by Scotch Roman and old-style typefaces.