Not to be outdone by Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or Apple for the rapidly expanding electronic book market , Google just took the wraps off of its highly-anticipated eBookstore.
If you’re in the US, you will be able to buy books — I like the support for small and/or independent bookstores — as well as read over three million public domain books for free.
Here is a video from Google that describes how the eBookstore works.
You may have noticed the narrator said that ebooks on “pretty much any device.” The caveat was added because the eBookstore items will not be available to Amazon Kindle owners.
If you use an Android device, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Sony eReader, Nook, or any type of computer…you’re in good shape.
While on the subject of reading, last week Google, rather quietly, released its Google Reader App for Android.
While there are a number of Google Reader apps available in the Android Market, many people have been waiting on a native app from Google. I gave the app a spin over the weekend and it is pretty good. The apps has a very clean interface, and the syncing with my Google Reader account worked flawlessly. I made a point to be as objective as possible when trying out this app, because, in all candor, I continue to yearn for the release of Feedly for Android. Feedly is my default interface for reading my Google Reader RSS subscriptions.
Nevertheless, if you have an Android device, are a heavy user of Google Reader, I think you will be pleased with this app.