{"id":910,"date":"2009-02-12T07:36:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T12:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2009-02-12T07:36:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T12:36:16","slug":"and-here-comes-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"And here comes Android…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not sure if I’ll say Google is getting into the act, or getting back into the act, or letting us know exactly where they are in the act, but Google, once a favorite of dead authors for digitizing public-domain books, is now making those works available over the phone.<\/p>\n

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Google Print<\/p><\/div>\n

500,000 of these eBooks are now available on Android <\/a>and iPhones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The original program, Google Print<\/a>, was intended for home PC use and viewing. It involved the scanning of millions of pages of literature, etc. These same tomes have now been painstakingly converted to text for display on hand-held communication devices.<\/p>\n

Read the whole story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s a massive libary of public domain works to have at your fingertips, yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n