Google Play Books & Audiobooks

In-app purchases
4.7
2.58M reviews
1B+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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About this app

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.
Updated on
Jun 25, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

4.7
2.33M reviews
Ryan Bishop
June 26, 2024
pricing on everything is garbage. if I'm not getting a physical copy, I should not have to pay the same price. how many digital stamps have y'all shelled out vs having paper? it's a joke. plain and simple, this app is better than most, but it's still Google run. so basically woke garbage at the top of the feed. and to find what you want, you've literally gotta search specifically by genre every time.
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Smiley Reviews
June 21, 2024
I often listen to audiobooks in the car when I'm going to work or on the way home. If I stop for whatever reason and get back into the car, 9 times out of 10 the app won't start playing my book again, a problem YouTube Music doesn't seem to have. The app often crashes or just pauses for no reason. There's no watch support to speak of, even for Google's own watch. The whole experience is just poor and if Google wants me to keep overspending on these audiobooks, the experience has to be better.
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Google LLC
June 22, 2024
Hi there. Sorry to hear you're having issues with your app. These steps are for the Play Store but should also help with your Play Books app: https://goo.gle/2tPy0rx. If not, please contact us directly: https://goo.gle/2QyJZSb. Hope this helps.
A S
June 24, 2024
Decent enough navigation. room for improvement. like continuous scrolling. But great content and prices. There are sales too. It's not Kindle but it's pretty good so far. I'm definitely using it more often lately. And you can buy books on other websites, like Smashwords and have them uploaded to Google books, which is easier than on Kindle. There's also a "read aloud" option I like, which is just an AI narration with lots of mispronounced words, but is better than Kindle, which doesn't have it.
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What's new

Arriving in 2023.6.12

* Reading practice feature is now available in select books in Tools for beginning readers. The microphone needs to be turned on to hear you, yet won‘t keep anything you say.

Recently added
* Multiple library improvements, including multiselect, improved filtering, an unshelved shelf, and an alphabetical index to jump to a specific title or author
* Navigation improvements to reach series pages
* The wishlist tab