{"id":37346,"date":"2011-11-02T07:28:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T05:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=37346"},"modified":"2011-11-02T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T17:49:07","slug":"google-expanded-its-online-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/37346-google-expanded-its-online-bookstore.html","title":{"rendered":"Google expanded its online bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> expanded its online bookstore to Canada on Tuesday, offering hundreds of thousands of electronic books for sale and millions of others for free.<\/p>\n<p>Google said it was partnering with a number of Canadian publishers for the launch including McClelland &amp; Stewart, Douglas &amp; McIntyre, House of Anansi and Dundurn, and retailers such as Campus eBookstore and McNally Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Google launched its eBookstore in the United States in December 2010 and expanded to Britain last month.<\/p>\n<p>Digital books sold through Google can be read on the <a title=\"Sony Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/347942-Sony\">Sony<\/a> Reader, the Nook from <a title=\"Barnes and Noble\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/378436-Barnes-amp-Noble\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> and other dedicated e-book readers but not on the popular Kindle from <a title=\"Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/356046-Amazon\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They can also be read on a variety of other devices including personal computers and <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> and <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Google said the Canadian catalog includes hundreds of thousands of books for purchase and two million free books in the public domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google expanded its online bookstore to Canada, offering hundreds of thousands of electronic books for sale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":27599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,167],"class_list":["post-37346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37348,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346\/revisions\/37348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}