Comments on: Pre-Order Your Books Straight From Google Play Starting Today

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:53:00 +0000

I actually read on my Gnex, I honestly can’t read from a real book anymore unless I have a table in front of me, I have never felt comfortable holding up books to read.

By: Skip Heflin

Skip Heflin — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:23:00 +0000

Hand raised here.

By: Inquizitor

Inquizitor — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:10:00 +0000

Hm. This could have interesting applications in the future. Pre-ordering an app seems kind of interesting, but risky. It has the potential to be a sort of Kickstarter-like deal, except without some binding agreement in place it’s a bit of a gamble that the dev will actually deliver. Could be good for huge companies like EA that release big titles.

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:22:00 +0000

Have you SEEN the Play store on release day?

I’ll get my coat.

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:21:00 +0000

Google, make textbooks available and I’ll throw my money at you.

By: Michael Kleinpaste

Michael Kleinpaste — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:07:00 +0000

Hand raised.

By: vonbane

vonbane — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:50:00 +0000

I’ve purchased and read 20+ ebooks from the Play store on my Xoom and now my Nexus 10, but unless there is a price break for a pre-order I don’t see much sense in it, seeing as it is an on demand, digital product.

By: Mack

Mack — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:12:00 +0000

Most of the time with books the pre-order price is lower than final retail.

By: YEMan0443

YEMan0443 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:52:00 +0000

raising my hand. actually bought Anthony Bourdain Kitchen Confidential for $2.99 when it was on sale. haven’t finished reading it nor have i bought another book since.

By: Michael Heller

Michael Heller — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:35:00 +0000

This actually started yesterday.

By: KleenDroid

KleenDroid — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Lol

By: Kevin Lauscher

Kevin Lauscher — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:31:00 +0000

Why would you pre-order an ebook? It’s not a finite resource. It will be available on release day.

By: Buy This

Buy This — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:29:00 +0000

minus that comma between “the N7″ and “I have now”

By: Buy This

Buy This — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:28:00 +0000

Bought two from the app right before I sold my Xoom. So I have read on that, the N7, I have now, and my G-Nex (mostly toilet reading with that). I was actually very pleased with the experience especially considering those were the first two e-books I had ever bought. I was reluctant to leave physical books but I found it to be really nice, especially on the N7.

By: Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:20:00 +0000

ive bought a couple of books from google play to read on my nexus 7, like other people ive made sure they have been cheaper than the paperback copy first