Official Google Blog – Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices

Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and search through the largest ebooks collection in the world with more than three million titles including hundreds of thousands for sale. Find the latest bestsellers like James Patterson’s Cross Fire and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, dig into popular reads like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken and catch up on the classics like Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and Gulliver’s Travels.

via Official Google Blog – Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices. Seems interesting but ultimately I’m already invested in Amazon’s Kindle Store.

Screenshots

Google Books has a nice error page already for failing.

Perhaps interestingly you can see the text on books that Google physically scanned, which looks quite nice and probably nice for those people who want the book to feel a little more real.

The normal text view is very impressive, my one complaint thus far is that there is no easy way to bookmark or highlight passages.