Android Central reports that Google has made a change to its requirements for Android OEMs that want to be able to bundle Google services such as Gmail or Google Maps with their Android phones. Google has a laundry list of apps that have to be installed along with those services for them to be available. These apps would show up on your phone without being installed, and you couldn’t uninstall them. You could uninstall their updates, but the apps themselves would still always be there.
But Google has pared down that laundry list. Now Google Play Games, Google Play Books, Google+, and Google Newsstand are no longer on it, which means they probably won’t be on your next smartphone or tablet. They’ll still be available in the app store, so you can install them if you can’t live without them, but they won’t be forced on you anymore.
I haven’t had much use for Play Games or Newsstand, and I did use G+ now and then with my G+ account, but I think Google Play Books is one of the best e-reader apps out there for Android. But you can still download it if you want it, so there is that. On the whole I think this is a good decision. If it leads to a little less shovelware on future mobile devices, that’s got to be a good thing, right?
Google play books is the worst ebook app their is,in order to use it your ebook has to be uploaded to the google cloud then mauled, then sent back in a form that only google play can use.