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Old 02-06-2015, 08:02 PM   #97
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... Is it safe to assume everything is available as an ADE-compatible epub as long as it says "best for: ereader" and "features: flowing text"?
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I think "flowing text" is Google-speak for epub and the other option, "scanned pages" is PDF. If you use the Google Books interface and mouse over the "BUY EBOOK" button, you'l get one of three popups:


This is an epub.


This is a PDF.


This is both.

While I haven't bought that many books from Google, I've only seen the above three possibilities and they've (so far) always correlated to epub, PDF and both respectively.
Thank you so much for this!

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... I meant the web interface at books.google.com rather than the app or play.google.com.
You can also find this info at the bottom of the each play.google.com product page under "Additional Info" (see screenshot). No mouse-hovering required
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