Google launched their new online digital entertainment supersite Google Play on Tuesday, featuring online movie rentals, digital music, apps, and yes, ebooks all in one store. The new site has subsumed the previous standalone Google eBooks, which is now apparently known as Books on Google Play. (In an interesting stylistic decision, most of the time digital reading files are simply called “books” though occasionally they slip up and call them ebooks.) Within the ebook vertical, a slicker interface and more aggressive promotions include a “25-cent Play of the Day,” promoting Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, with Google […]
