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01 March 2011 ,
Written by Dhruv Tanwar
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Google has opened up its e-bookstore to the Android Market. Android users will now be able to buy e-books from Google's Android Market, a logical tie in to Google's own eBookstore that was launched in December last year. Android users can choose between viewing the book on the Web or downloading a copy to their Android device for reading on the Google Books app.
Google's book sales arrives at the Android Market close on the heels of an update announced by book and e-book retailer Barnes & Noble to its free NOOK for Android app. The update adds requested features, including a new library grid view, wish list feature and download progress meter, amongst other improvements. Barnes & Noble has also promised a new release of Nook for Android this spring that would feature enhanced graphics, grid views and other improvements that would be optimized for shopping and reading on larger 10-inch Honeycomb-based tablets, which would span to-be-launched products from Motorola, Samsung, and Toshiba. |