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Originally Posted by Hitch
I did want to second what Quoth says about GoogleBooks--their market share is quite literally infinitesimal. Now...your client may have a good reason to want to be there, but I tend to find, for what it's worth, that generally speaking, authors seem to have very little connection to reality, about where books sell, where they're found, and all that. I've had some convinced that putting their books on GBooks would somehow magically enhance their organic SEO for their book titles and the like.
So...perhaps, before you drive yourself crazier, you could ask the author and make sure that there's good reason for all this angst?
Typically, by the time I get to where you are, with the yanking-out-hair stage, I've simply told the customer that it can't be done. We warn them about this upfront, and I invoke the ripcord clause ("can't be done") as needed.
Hitch
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You are right @Hitch, although we know that Google Books' marker share is a tiny bit, the author is adamant to have an Android presence through Google Books.
The ePub works on other apps without any significant issues so I've already suggested the author have the ePub sell through his website too.