COOLERBOOKS.com Announces Google Partnership

September 2, 2009

- More Than a Million Titles now Available From COOLERBOOKS.com, the First ebookstore Outside the US to Partner With Google Books...

READING, England, September 2 /PRNewswire/ -- British company Interead announces that COOLERBOOKS.com is the first ebookstore outside the US to partner with Google to include over 1 million public domain books (close to half a million outside the US) from Google Books in its online library. Starting today, COOLERBOOKS.com will feature a Google API with out of copyright works from the Google Books index, accessible for free via the COOLERBOOKS.com website, and the COOL-ER ereader. With this partnership, COOLERBOOKS.com becomes the largest ebookstore in the world, with over one million titles available for purchase or free access.

COOLERBOOKS.com is known for being the ebookstore designed by readers, for readers. Unlike other ebookstores, COOLERBOOKS.com accommodates 19 document formats: these include EPUB and PDF, and MP3 for audio books, giving this ebookstore the broadest range of formats on the web. Users will also be able to view a preview of many of the ebooks on offer, allowing them to read a few pages before deciding whether they would like to buy the whole title.

Interead is also the company behind the COOL-ER ereader, a light, affordable and user-friendly ereader designed to be used by technophiles and tech-phobes alike.

'At Interead, our aim has always been to make ebooks available to ordinary book lovers, not just technology enthusiasts,' explains Neil Jones, founder of Interead and avid book lover. 'We want everyone to be able to enjoy the content on COOLERBOOKS.com, so even if you don't own one of our COOL-ER ereaders you can still download your favourite titles. And now, our partnership with Google allows us to offer more content than anyone else, as well as giving readers the freedom to have a look through ebooks that they might be interested in. We're extremely proud to be the first ebookstore outside the US to partner with Google Books, and we hope that the collaboration will make the appeal and accessibility of ebooks broader than ever.'

"We're delighted to make part of our public domain books available to users via COOLERBOOKS.com. We believe in an open platform for accessing and reading books, we're always looking for more ways to expand access to books. This partnership will make it easier for users to find and access public domain books, thus helping bring more books to more people," says Santiago de la Mora, Head of Print Content Partnerships, EMEA.

Visit http://www.COOLERBOOKS.com or http://www.interead.com for more information.

About Interead

Based in Reading, England and Miami, Interead and COOL-ER are the creation of seasoned entrepreneur Neil Jones. COOL-ER is the lightest and most affordable ereader available, is both MAC and PC compatible, and accommodates popular formats including EPUB, PDF, MP3, FB2, RTF, TXT, HTML, PRC (non DRM), JPG, GIF, BMP. COOLERBOOKS.com holds the largest selection of ebook formats in the world.

    
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