Google Play Books prepares for book rental
The company Google continues to work on improving its own tools. This time it's the turn of Google Play Books, your purchase, download and reading serviceof books, you have updated your applications for smartphones for what's to come. And it is that, just a few hours ago, new services have been activated on this editorial platform.Services that, for the moment, are only available for the North American market, but that will end up arriving in Spain at some point.
Google already promised last month and just a few hours ago it has kept its word. Thus, the textbooks have begun to reach Google Play Books Content books and character academic that due to its high price or its relative utility can be rented and not purchased. Issue for which they have prepared their Android and iPhone application with paths updates, in addition to contain other extras.
In such a way, and even though for now it is not possible to search for textbooks or rent any other title, one of the novelties of this new version of Google Play Books is to support it.At the moment, it is known that next to the possibility of acquiring a book, whenever possible, there is a new button with the word Alquilar (Rent in English) with a much lower cost and the possibility of enjoying the book as if it were your own during a period of 180 days In addition, in the store North American Google Play there is already a special listing Browse textbooks to find all sorts of titles and genres
But what about the Spanish market? Despite the fact that there has been no official communication yet, it is to be expected that these services will end up arriving sooner or later. Meanwhile, it is possible to make use of the rest of the new functions that the application brings Google Play BooksThus, Google's text recognition technology now allows users to highlight and take notes marking part of the text of scanned sheetsSomething that was not possible before because it did not detect the lines of text that were in them.
In addition, in the version for Android it is now also possible to select and ccopy author citations or any text portion of a book, as long as its copyright allows it. Along with this, we have improved the design of the bottom navigation bar that appears in recommendation cards
For its part, the version for iPhone now has the possibility of changing the white color of the background to a more realistic sepia tone, simulating the real pages of a book and helping to improve readability.Its stability and general operation of the application has also been improved.
In short, an update that comes with the main reason of providing a rental service that for now is limited to users of United States However, we are grateful for the other new additions that continue to improve the operation of this application for all users Two new versions of Google Play Books are now available for full download free through Google Play and App Store, depending on the platform you have.
