Google eBoooks are now available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore through the web, Android/iPhone apps and on eReaders. Book purchases are charged to your Google Checkout account. Bestseller books prices range from around $9.99 to $12.99, and are mostly cheaper than hard-bound versions of the books. For example, Decision Points by George W. Bush costs $18.89 on Amazon for the hard-bound version and $9.99 for the digital Google eBooks version.
You can browse and search through the largest ebooks collection in the
world with more than three million titles, including hundreds of
thousands for sale. Find the latest bestsellers like James Patterson's Cross Fire ($12.99 on Google and $14.96 for hardback on Amazon), and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. Dig into popular trends like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken ($9.99). You can catch up on the free classics like Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gulliver's Travels.
Google eBooks stores your library in the digital cloud, so you can read all of your favorite books, using just about any device with an Internet connection. Google eBooks is compatible with Android phones, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, web browsers and many supported eReaders (Nook Sony).
For many books, you can select which font, font size, day/night reading mode, and the line spacing that suits you--and pick up on the page where you left off when switching devices.