The Google Play website gives you instant access to thousands of books including business, computer programming and financial books in the eBook format. Ebooks can be read online or on a Google Books ...

Google formalized its plans to launch an online store to deliver e-books to any kind of gadget. Google Editions, as it’s called, will open for business in the first quarter of 2010 and compete ...

The U.S. Justice Department advised a federal judge Friday that a proposed legal settlement giving Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books threatens to thwart competition and ...

Google’s “Play” family of apps is now down to the Store, Games, and Books after the Google TV and YouTube Music revamps. An update to Google Play Books today adds the ability to create custom shelves ...

Richard Sarnoff, chairman of the Association of American Publishers, speculated last week that the landmark Google Book Search settlement could create a duopoly in the electronic books market.

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spring Design, developers of the dual screen multimedia Alex™ eReader, today announced they have entered into an agreement with Google that gives Alex users access to ...

Twelve years after Google shocked the book industry by announcing plans to copy millions of library books into a new online directory, the legal battle over the project has finally ended. The Supreme ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Spring Design announced on Jan. 5 that users of its Alex e ...

On November 14, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the Authors Guild’s case against Google, allowing the technology company to continue expanding its Google Books ...

Supporters of Google's effort to create the world's largest digital library on the Internet told a federal judge Thursday that it would benefit society, while opponents said it would infringe on ...

You can send someone Google Play credit by buying them a physical gift card or an ecard from an online retailer, like Amazon. Google Play credits can be used to purchase anything from movies to games ...