20
Mar
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[Updated] Google Play Books Now Live In Mexico (Google Play Books Ya Está Disponible En México)

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If you're in Mexico and love to read books, your potential book collection just got a lot bigger thanks to Google. Naturally, I'm talking about Google Play Books, which is now live in Mexico.

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See? Just look at all those Spanish words. There are plenty more where those came from as soon as you enable the feature on your device and start digging around for your favorite titles. There should even be a slew of books for free.

So there you go, Mexican bookworms, even more content to choose from. Go check it out.

Update: Here's the official post about it from Google Mexico.

18
Dec
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Google Play Books Updated - Expanded Support For Read Aloud, Pinch To Zoom, New Note Editing Features

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The Google Play Books update received an update this afternoon to version 2.7.25, expanding support for several features, as well implementing new functionality for others. Here's the changelog:

What's in this version:

You can now listen to most flowing text books using the "Read aloud" feature.
You can now pinch-zoom or double-tap-zoom in all books.
All text editing features are available for notes.
Personalized recommendations are shown at the end of your library and at the end of the books.
Numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements are included.

While this isn't exactly a massive overhaul, expanded support for things like pinch-to-zoom / double-tap zoom, read aloud mode, and note editing are objective improvements to the app.

11
Dec
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Have You Heard? Play Books And Movies Are Out In St. Petersburg (And The Rest Of Russia)

Posted by in Google, News

It seems like we can't go more than a week or two without hearing that one of Google's content services has rolled out to a new country. Today, Russia is getting in on the action with Play Books and Movies now available throughout the country. You can purchase books like normal, and movies are available both for rental and purchase.

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Prices for movie rentals start at around 49 rubles (USD$1.60) and purchases start at 99 rubles (USD$3.22). There are a number of major studios on board, including many American companies such as 20th Century Fox, NBC Universal, Paramount, and Sony, as well as local production houses like Central Partnership (Централ Партнершип).

24
Sep
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Google Play Books Updated To 2.6.31 - Adds Highlighting, Translation, Dictionary, Sliding Page Turn, And More

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The Google Play Books app just received a substantial update, bringing the app to version 2.6.31 on compatible devices. Here's the changelog:

Added highlighting, notes, dictionary, "Places" info cards, translation, sepia mode, and sliding page-turn. Fixed crashes on launch on certain devices including HTC Wildfire.

Details:

In "Flowing Text" books, you can tap & hold to select some text and then
- Highlight
Add notes
- Translate
- See definition in dictionary info cards
- See a map and Wikipedia snippet in "Places" info cards, if the selected text is a place.

This is actually quite a large feature update, much of which you can see demonstrated in the screenshots below.