Posts tagged “Google eBookstore

Google combines entertainment services into Google Play

Posted on 7 March 2012

WARNING Before reading this, please be aware that Google Music and movie rentals through Google Play are still country restricted, so if you’re not in the United States (and don’t know how to get around that) this may make you sad! Just a heads up!
Just hours ago Google launched Google Play, a combined user interface for your apps, books, movies and music, bringing together the content and purchase platforms that used to be the separate Android Market, Google Music and the Google Books eBookstore services (you’ll notice that market.android.com, music.google.com and books.google.com/ebooks all now redirect to their respective areas of Google Play). They’ve also launched the Google Play Store Android app as well as Play apps to use your booksmovies and music.

Most of Play’s features are really just an amalgamation of pre-existing features, but it’s biggest selling point is that is makes all this content available in the cloud so you can use your content across all your devices without having to buy the same thing numerous times (like you do with iPhones and iPads!).


Introducing Google Play: All your entertainment, anywhere you go Jamie Rosenberg on Google’s Official Blog, 7 March 2012.

Introducing Google Play on Google Play’s YouTube channel.

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Music Beta graduates to Google Music (but it’s US only)

Posted on 17 November 2011

Yesterday Google announced Google Music. The service wraps a music discovery and purchase platform around their existing Music Beta by Google service that lets users upload (up to 20,000 songs from) their personal music collection to the cloud for streaming playback: Google Music helps you spend more time listening to your collection and less time managing it. We automatically sync your entire music library—both purchases and uploads—across all your devices so you don’t have to worry about cables, file transfers or running out of storage space. We’ll keep your playlists intact, too, so your “Chill” playlist is always your “Chill” playlist, whether you’re on your laptop, tablet or phone. You can even select the specific artists, albums and playlists you want to listen to…

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