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Old 10-09-2015, 03:38 PM   #16
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If indeed it's Google Play Books (and not Google Books), then:

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Old 10-23-2015, 12:39 AM   #17
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Are google books free?? and where to download it..
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Old 10-23-2015, 06:47 AM   #18
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Are google books free?? and where to download it..
Google Books is a project to digitise books. The out-of-copyright ones can be downloaded as page-scanned PDFs; the commercial ones obviously cannot.

The URL is what you'd expect it to be:

http://books.google.com
http://books.google.co.uk
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This is entirely separate from Google Play Books, which is a commercial ePub bookstore.
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Old 10-23-2015, 08:52 AM   #19
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Google Books is a project to digitise books. The out-of-copyright ones can be downloaded as page-scanned PDFs; the commercial ones obviously cannot.

The URL is what you'd expect it to be:

http://books.google.com
http://books.google.co.uk
etc.

This is entirely separate from Google Play Books, which is a commercial ePub bookstore.
Although like most commercial sites Google Play has free books
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Are google books free?? and where to download it..
Some are, some are not.
Now if you do want books free or otherwise, you will either need a credit card or a gift card attached to the account.
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Old 10-23-2015, 03:35 PM   #21
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Now if you do want books free or otherwise, you will either need a credit card or a gift card attached to the account.
That's true for Google Play Books, but not for Google Books. For Google Books you don't even need an account.
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That's true for Google Play Books, but not for Google Books. For Google Books you don't even need an account.
Difference please.
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Difference please.
Was my post #18, which was only a couple of messages above your own, unclear?
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Was my post #18, which was only a couple of messages above your own, unclear?
Thanks Harry.
That is a great search engine but when I clicked on a book, I got links to various places.
I knew to buy a book from Google, you do need a payment option.
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Thanks Harry.
That is a great search engine but when I clicked on a book, I got links to various places.
I knew to buy a book from Google, you do need a payment option.
I was just able to "buy" Treasure Island from the play bookstore using an account that has no payment method associated with it. I verified that there was no payment method by then trying to buy a book for $1.99 and it refused to continue until I added a payment method.

So I guess that is no longer true?

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I was just able to "buy" Treasure Island from the play bookstore using an account that has no payment method associated with it. I verified that there was no payment method by then trying to buy a book for $1.99 and it refused to continue until I added a payment method.

So I guess that is no longer true?

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Shari, we aren't talking about Google Play here, but about Google Books, which is a completely different service. Google Books is not a bookstore, and doesn't sell anything.
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I was just answering how to buy books from Google.
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I was just answering how to buy books from Google.
Yes, I know, but unfortunately there seems to be a great deal of confusion between Google Books, the book digitising project, and Google Play Books, the bookstore. Just pointing out that the two are completely different things. Google Books isn't a bookstore, and doesn't sell books.
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Yes, I know, but unfortunately there seems to be a great deal of confusion between Google Books, the book digitising project, and Google Play Books, the bookstore. Just pointing out that the two are completely different things. Google Books isn't a bookstore, and doesn't sell books.
Even I was confused and I am certainly not new.

A google search was no help because when one types in Google books, it pops up both at the top. Though thanks for clarifying.

Oh Shari,
Have you picked up a non public domain book without a payment option?
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Shari, we aren't talking about Google Play here, but about Google Books, which is a completely different service. Google Books is not a bookstore, and doesn't sell anything.
Ok...when I went to books.google.com and typed in "Treasure Island" I ended up on this page https://books.google.com/books?id=UP...island&f=false

I then decided to click on the "Ebook-Free" button to download the book, and it took me to google play to get the book. I had to use a google account to download the book. (although I didn't need a payment method attached to the account)

So yes...google books doesn't sell anything, and you can't download anything from there either--not even free books that are in the public domain.

I was replying to 2 separate things--Cinsajoy's statement that you had to have a card on file in order to get even free books from Google play, and your post saying that "out-of-copyright ones can be downloaded as page-scanned PDFs"

Neither are true, in my experience.

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