Google Play Books
Google, Mountain View, California, United StatesGoogle Play Books is a digital storefront and app from Google that offers a large library of ebooks, comics, manga, and audiobooks for purchase.
It claims to host one of the world's largest ebook collections with over five million titles, supports cross-device syncing, offline reading, and sharing of purchases within a Family Library.
According to our data, Google Play Books is the 5th most popular ebook technology on the web.
It has 6.8% of the ebook market share and is present on 0.009% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
- 🏷️ Previous name
- Google eBooks
- 🔗 Links
Wikipedia💸 Pricing
Google Play Books is available for free. Additional paid services are also available.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Ebooks
- Rank: 5
- Market share: 6.8%
- Audiobooks
- Rank: 3
- Market share: 17.6%
🏆 Google Play Books Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Ebooks category.
⚡ Sites Using Google Play Books
We have data on 352 websites that use Google Play Books ebook technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Google Play Books is islam.ms.
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Google Play Books:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Blogs/Wiki category.
Most of the sites using Google Play Books are from the United States and the United Kingdom.
- United States 46.7%
- United Kingdom 5.4%
- Brazil 4.6%
- Germany 4.2%
- Indonesia 3.8%
- Turkey 3.8%
- Australia 2.9%
- Spain 2.9%
- Canada 2.5%
- Other 23.2%
Most Google Play Books users speak English or Portuguese.
- English 76.1%
- Portuguese 3.1%
- Spanish 2.8%
- Turkish 2.8%
- German 2.3%
- Chinese 1.7%
- Indonesian 1.7%
- Italian 1.4%
- French 1.1%
- Other 7%
Google Play Books ebook technology is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 73.9%
- .net 4.5%
- .org 3.7%
- .de 1.7%
- .eu 1.4%
- .co.uk 1.4%
- .com.br 1.1%
- .in 0.9%
- .ro 0.9%
- Other 10.5%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Google Play Books include blogs and wiki, marketing and merchandising, and entertainment.
- Blogs/Wiki 31.8%
- Marketing/Merchandising 21.2%
- Entertainment 12.1%
- Education/Reference 10.6%
- Online Shopping 7.6%
- Business 3%
- Internet Services 1.5%
- Health 1.5%
- Games 1.5%
- Other 9.2%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind Google Play Books?
Google Play Books is owned by Google LLC, headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
Is Google Play Books free?
Yes, it is a free ebook technology.
Which country uses Google Play Books the most?
The majority of Google Play Books users are from the United States.
Who uses Google Play Books?
According to our data, Google Play Books is used on hundreds of sites, including such established ones as islam.ms,
deadgoodbooks.co.uk, and
danbrown.com.
How does Google Play Books stack up against its competitors?
Google Play Books is a moderately popular ebook technology, ranking ahead of 7 other ebook technologies we track.
What are the alternatives to Google Play Books?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Google Play Books may include 
Apple Books, 
Kobo, and 
Litres.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.