Wednesday, March 7

New Google Play combines apps, music and books

Google on Tuesday unified its digital entertainment offerings into a single cloud-based destination called Google Play. Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore are part of this new online emporium. At play.google.com, you can store all the music, movies, books and apps you've previously bought through what had been separate Google stores, or visit the site to fetch new content. Google Play is available on the Web and on Android smartphones and tablets. Inside Google Play, you can store up to 20,000 music tracks or purchase new songs from a catalog now north of 8 million tracks. Google Play also has more than 450,000 Android apps and games available for download, and more than 4 million eBooks, which Google claims is the largest e-book collection anywhere. You can also rent thousands of movies. Read more here