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Google play launches Books in India

26 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/google-play-launches-books-in-india.170870/

amjath
amjath Original post #1
Feb 28, 2013 at 10:14 AM
First Turn by Turn Navigation now this Google Books is here. Check it out people

*play.google.com/store/books?feature=corpus_selector

Next up Google Music Yayyyy
theserpent
Feb 28, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Woah! I need google movies then i guess i can get the free movie that comes with nexus 10 :D
kapilove77
Feb 28, 2013 at 11:21 AM
They need to launch nexus phones too but i am disappointed. :evil:
amjath
amjath #4
Feb 28, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Movies, Music and Nexus device [Play Store to sell Nexus] left to launch in India

Woah! I need google movies then i guess i can get the free movie that comes with nexus 10 :D

woah free movies what movies comes with Nexus 10 bro
guru_urug
Feb 28, 2013 at 1:17 PM
Google Devices is what I look forward to the most. Hopefully by the time the Motorola X phone will launch they will have it on the Play store in India :-D

BTW Flipkart is gonna have serious competition in the ebooks market now. Who will people prefer FK or Google? Google has the advantage since its a trusted name,has more resources and any person who owns an android handset can directly buy from the Google Play Books app now.

More competition=better for consumer
amjath
amjath #7
Feb 28, 2013 at 2:29 PM
I dont think motorola's x phone ll come to India cause they closed their sale in India :(
pratyush997
Feb 28, 2013 at 2:36 PM
Can't find 300 book frank miller in there :(
anyone?
theserpent
Feb 28, 2013 at 3:37 PM
Movies, Music and Nexus device [Play Store to sell Nexus] left to launch in India



woah free movies what movies comes with Nexus 10 bro

IDK...Like nexus 7 had got free Ice age
Anorion
Anorion #10
Feb 28, 2013 at 3:41 PM
yeah can't find some books in there, but didn't expect them, they are not even on kindle
everyone has the same boring stuff in the freeb section, gutenberg or archive have better pickings, even google book search with a full free download filter is better than the free ebooks section
plus its getting a little confusing, theres google books and google play books

need google music first, it backs up all your music in the cloud and streams them anywhere
tkin
tkin #11
Feb 28, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Google books prices are higher than Fk.
skeletor
skeletor #12
Feb 28, 2013 at 7:57 PM
do I get the PDF? is it DRM-free?
nikufellow
Feb 28, 2013 at 8:09 PM
Talk about business strategies all this time they were ignoring us (okay fan boys spare me from quarrel) and le apple launched iTunes and other stuff leaving out just ibookstote and see how fast Google jumped in to fill the gap.
d6bmg
d6bmg #14
Feb 28, 2013 at 8:15 PM
I dont think motorola's x phone ll come to India cause they closed their sale in India :(

Motorola used to sell mobiles in India, not anymore.
tkin
tkin #16
Mar 1, 2013 at 4:48 AM
If I can't get DRM free ePubs, forget google or even fk books, I use coolreader and epubs only, PDFs are not suited for reading on mobile devices(text reflow :yuck: ) and I don't think coolreader supports drm on epubs.
eggman
eggman #17
Mar 2, 2013 at 12:24 AM
People asking for Google music, it's already there for India :-S
krishnandu.sarkar
Mar 3, 2013 at 6:15 PM
Books @ Google Play is really overpriced. Bookadda / Flipkart is cheaper.

Though I bought "I Too Had A Love Story"..!! Rating was good, costed Rs. 66/-

I don't think we can download it as E-Book. Only option is to read online.

And I really think I have wasted Rs 66/-. I don't think this would even work. Because if one can't download it as PDF, it's surely not going to work in India.
tkin
tkin #20
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:14 PM
Books @ Google Play is really overpriced. Bookadda / Flipkart is cheaper.

Though I bought "I Too Had A Love Story"..!! Rating was good, costed Rs. 66/-

I don't think we can download it as E-Book. Only option is to read online.

And I really think I have wasted Rs 66/-. I don't think this would even work. Because if one can't download it as PDF, it's surely not going to work in India.
:facepalm:

Go back google, we need offline files and we need epub, period.
krishnandu.sarkar
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:44 PM
Really. Going online whenever you want to read the book is really a big problem.

I (and many other members I guess) would like to read the book on my free time say when I'm travelling and all. So this is really not a good option.
tkin
tkin #22
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:45 PM
Really. Going online whenever you want to read the book is really a big problem.

I (and many other members I guess) would like to read the book on my free time say when I'm travelling and all. So this is really not a good option.
And epub/mobi books would help, I hate the online reader from Flipkart/Google, Coolreader is much much better :|
S
Mar 28, 2013 at 6:14 PM
Good addition but the books are way too expensive
B
Mar 28, 2013 at 7:39 PM
Google movies are here too!!
thetechfreak
Mar 28, 2013 at 8:17 PM
Just noticed the new app which was automatically installed on my phone. I guess they want to take the present competition head on.
Collection looks good.
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amjath
amjath #26
Mar 28, 2013 at 8:30 PM
^ oh acha acha u had ur exam isn't it