Better late than never! Google has finally added an e-books section to its content marketplace Google Play in India, allowing users to purchase e-books to their mobile phones and tablets. Content: When we checked, we noticed that users can browse books from Google Play Store on the web and through the Play Store app. The site currently offers a mixture of free and paid ebooks and is spread across various categories like biographies & memoirs, business & economics, children's books, cooking, fiction & literature, health, mind & body, history, religion & spirituality, romance, and technology & engineering among others. Note that this e-books section contains only novels and Google offers an separate app for magazines, which is not available in India yet. Also its currently not clear as to how books are present in the company's catalogue. Availability: Google is currently offering a Play Books app across various platforms like Android, iOS, Web, Chrome Extension, and e-book readers which support Adobe's eBook platform including Kindle. Pricing When we checked, we noticed that the e-books are shown in Indian pricing and the e-books are priced similar to Flipkart's Flyte and Amazon's Kindle store. Users can buy these books through a Google Wallet account, similar to how users currently purchase paid Android apps on Google Play. Sadly, however, Google Wallet currently supports only credit cards as a payment option. Features We tried out the Google Play Books app on a Micromax A90S and noticed that Google Play Books offer features such as ability to…
