Thread: Why is Android's Play Books not opening ebook?
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Old 09-28-2014, 07:34 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Arkadian View Post
NTG, thanks for that.

However I don't understand... The book is in "Download", so it is in my phone. I click on it and the phone asks me whether I want to use Play Books. I say yes and you are saying that that wouldn't work?
What should I do instead?

Also, what is the difference between clicking on something in "Download" and opening an email attachment?

I have been perusing their documentation, but found nothing on the subject.
The ebook may have been sitting on your phone but you can't actually open it in GPB without first uploading the ebook to Google's servers. That is just how they do things.

To the best of mt knowledge, Google Play Books does not use Epub in its apps. It uses a different unknown file format:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/0...possibilities/

As for why it worked as an email attachment, I don't know.
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