You can discover and buy new ebooks from the Google eBookstore or get them from one of our independent bookseller partners: Powell’s, Alibris and participating members of the American Booksellers Association. You can choose where to buy your ebooks like you choose where to buy your print books, and keep them all on the same bookshelf regardless of where you got them.
Looks big. I’m not crazy about the online reading experience in the browser — it’s very Google, but as soon as I start bitching about that I realize that this is not something I can do with iBookstore, and is pretty clumsy with the Kindle reader on my laptop, too. Selection is strong, and the web reader does actually support ragged-right, even if the default font (Georgia) is a bit grating. Weirdly, I’m not sure I care about that on the laptop — I can’t yet envision reading a book on it. Looks like, for most titles, you can download PDF or ePub versions for offline reading so Stanza is back in the game. So far the iOS app isn’t available for me but it’ll be interesting to see how they handle typography.