Android Market Opens Its Own Book Store: Browse Titles on the Web, Read Them on Your Android
It isn’t quite as flashy or exciting as Google Music, but another new segment of the Android Market webstore has launched concurrently with the release of Android 3.0 Honeycomb: Google Books. We’ve seen that e-reading is totally overhauled in Honeycomb, and to go along with a brilliantly designed app and homescreen bookshelf widget comes an online book store that can be used in the same manner as the relatively new web version of the Android Market.
Browse and search titles by interest, price, or genre and then purchase. The main difference is the Books market will give you the option to read the text right in your browser. If Google Books is installed and synced on your Android phone, you can read there too.
As you can see from the layout, it won’t differ much from the current Android Market experience. Sanjay Jha of Motorola had said that Google Music would also launch alongside Honeycomb and the Motorola XOOM, but a quick check shows that isn’t the case. We’ll remain hopeful we will see that soon.
[via AndroidPolice]