Google Play Books & Audiobooks vs Amazon Kindle Usage & Stats

Google Play Books is the one app you need to buy and enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Choose from millions of best selling ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your book to read or listen on the go. When you’re finished, find your next favorite from recommendations personalized just for you. Buy audiobooks and ebooks as you go - with no subscription required. Choose from millions of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics * Buy ebooks and audiobooks as you go - no subscription required. * Preview samples before you buy. * Get extra discounts on select bundles. * Receive emails or notifications about new releases from your favorite authors and when your wishlisted books go on sale. * Earn Google Play Points with every purchase, then exchange them for Google Play credit. * Receive notifications or emails for price drops in your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series. * Discover new releases, best sellers, and personalized recommendations across genres like romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more. Best in class reading and listening experience. * Read or listen on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even when you’re offline. * Pick up where you left off on any device. * Customize your reading experience. Adjust the text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors. * Track your reading progress. See what percent you’ve read and how many pages you have left. * Organize your library into shelves. Use the new shelves tab to curate your library by theme or genre. View your shelves across Android, iOS, and the web. * Save to SD card. Choose to save your books to the device or an SD card, so you never run out of space. * Use reading tools in children's books to get kid-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words, or hear the book read aloud. * Use Bubble Zoom for easier comic reading on a mobile device. Tap the page and watch your favorite comic or manga come to life. * Take notes that sync with your Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration. * Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages while you read. * Turn on Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness.

Google Play Store
Free
Books & Reference

Usage Rank

#484

Amazon Kindle

READ ANYTIME, ANYWHERE On the bus, on your break, in your bed—never be without something to read. The Kindle app puts millions of books, magazines, newspapers, comics, and manga at your fingertips. FIND YOUR NEXT GREAT READ - Find your next great read with Kindle. Choose from millions of Kindle books (including books with Audible narration), magazines, audiobooks, and comics. Explore new releases, Amazon Charts best sellers, and titles across genres like romance, science fiction, children’s books, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more—and try any book with a sample in the app before you buy on Amazon.com - Kindle Unlimited members can enjoy unlimited reading and listening, with the freedom to explore over 1 million titles, thousands of audiobooks, and current magazines. - Thousands of books, magazines, comics, and more included with Amazon Prime. GO BEYOND PAPER Turn your phone or tablet into a book with the Kindle app—so you can read anytime, anywhere. Explore these reading features in the Kindle app: - Read your way. Customize your text size, font type, margins, text alignment, and orientation (portrait or landscape)—and choose whether to turn pages from left to right or continuously scroll. Read comfortably day and night with adjustable brightness and background colors. Go to the Aa menu in your book to get started. - Look up words, people, and places while you read. Breeze through words you don’t know and characters you can’t remember with the built-in dictionary, X-Ray, Wikipedia lookup, instant translations, and search within your book. Simply tap and hold a word to view its definition, or follow links to Google and Wikipedia to get more information. - Track your reading progress. See what percent of the book you’ve read, real page numbers (for most top titles), and how much time you have left in the chapter or book based on your actual reading speed. - Bookmark places you want to revisit, and make highlights and take notes throughout your book. Open My Notebook to see all your notes in the same place. - Hop, skim, and jump with Page Flip. Flip between pages or get a bird’s-eye view of your book with Page Flip—don’t worry, we’ll save your place. - Zoom in on high-definition color images in Kindle books, magazines, comics, and manga. - Sync your books across devices. When you’re reading a book, the Kindle app will automatically sync where you left off—along with any bookmarks, highlights, or notes—so you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another. - When you can’t read, listen. Switch seamlessly from reading your Kindle book to listening to the Audible book, all within the Kindle app. - Get notified when authors you love have new releases. By using this app, you agree to Amazon’s Conditions of Use (www.amazon.com/conditionsofuse) and Privacy Notice (www.amazon.com/privacy).