Google reader apps for supported devices

From the link:

Amazon Kindle. Currently, Google eBooks are not compatible with Amazon Kindle devices, though we are open to supporting them in the future.

AND Borders and Barnes and Noble are merging.

AND Kindle are out of stock in Canada before Christmas.

Things are not looking good for Amazon.

No love for Windows-based smartphones, eh? Typical.

Given how buggy the Google eBooks apps are, lack of support for the kindle, silly configurations (no single page view on web app), lack of content, high prices on front page (last time I look there was nothing under $9, most were $12+…. the list goes on. Expect Google eBook to last slightly longer than google wave, but not by much.

Peter, the Borders and B&N merger isn’t a done deal and won’t be for months or years, if at all. The man who wants this to happen has tried before and failed.

And give Google eBooks a little time to work out the bugs before damning it.

I’m not a fan of Google, but it does work toward improving itself.

@Marilynn

You are more than correct; I am a (small) Barnes and Noble shareholder and I do not believe the merger has any chance of being completed as proposed.

I also do not think Amazon the company is going out of style anytime soon (Sony didn’t after betamax).

But my point here is as a consumer; The fact that Google didn’t even feel the need to point out you CAN read their books on a Kindle through a browser ,and that they don’t support mobipocket even in non-DRM books, tells me that epub readers, as a whole, have already surpassed Kindle in market share and won the format war.

Now it’s just a question of how long can Bezos trick people into thinking otherwise.

No support for annotations or highlighting? No sharing over social networks? That should have been there from the very beginning, regardless future enhancements. It’s quite surprising, given Google’s record of tracking personal data, that they haven’t thought of gathering and analyzing data coming from what users annotate/highlight on books, let alone what users would suggest as correction for the (often poorly) OCRed texts.

“In the end, Borders making a play for B&N makes sense only if you prefer your business news to resemble a reality-TV show” – Sarah Weinman

Interesting that NOOK and NOOKcolor are Google eBookstore partners.

Where do you see bn.com being a partner?

Then again if your reader is compatible with Adobe drm then you are a ‘partner’ willing or not, so I guess it does not really matter.