There are many things you can do with it, like shake for new wallpapers , get rounded screen corners , and make it help you fall asleep at night.
But, before you get into softModding your Nexus 7, you should know the basics, and if you've come over from a Kindle, turning your new Android tablet into a powerful eReader is a must. The stock Google Play Books is a great place to buy and store ebooks on your Nexus 7, but getting your digital books on it might be tricky.
The first way, which is real convenient for those of you that have a lot of content on your computers, is to sign in to Google Play on your computer and upload it through there. You can drag and drop files, or upload from specific folders on your computer. It's just that easy, and now you can access it through your device just by going to the Play Books app and going to your library. You can also do the above directly from the Chrome browser on your Nexus 7 tablet.
However, after you first sign in, it might auto-direct you to the Google Play app. Just go back to Chrome and you should be able to access it now. You won't be able to drag and drop anything, obviously, so choose Select files from your computer , then select Documents , where you can find PDFs from your Dropbox, Google Drive, Downloads folder, and more. Google recently made an update to Google Play Books 3. The new software delivers faster performance, according to the company, and new features such as "voice search.
In pic: Hugo Barra, product management director of Android, introduces Google's low-cost computer tablet Nexus 7 during the keynote speech at Google's annual developer conference. The tablet's limited availability - executives said they had no plans yet to expand distribution beyond Google's own site - may curtail initial sales growth.
Nifty 18, Zomato Ltd. Market Watch. ET NOW. Brand Solutions. Video series featuring innovators. ET Financial Inclusion Summit. Malaria Mukt Bharat. Tablets are insanely versatile, and Google's selling its new entry as a total content device with brand new Jelly Bean bells and whistles. Still, let's face it: at this size and price point , the Nexus 7 's natural competitors are first and foremost reading-centric tablets like Amazon's Kindle Fire. And make no mistake: Google is selling this as a reading device , adding magazines to Google Play and touting its bookstore as "the world's largest ebook collection.
Books and magazines are important not for their own sake, but for Google's long-term strategy In other words, books and magazines are important not for their own sake, but for Google's long-term strategy.
For years, Google Books has been a store with no physical storefront, even as Apple and Amazon convinced millions of us to walk around with networked shops in our bags and pockets. Add in the rejected settlement and ongoing lawsuits with the Authors' Guild over out-of-print books , and Google's attention wandered elsewhere.
The booksellers' customer base helped them branch out, forking the platform and substituting their app stores for Google's. So like Microsoft, Google needs to make its own hardware both for its own sake and to show Android OEMs how it's done. But it also needs to stop the Kindle and Nook from bleeding Android dry. Google has to show that the latest and greatest official version of Android performs as well or better on a reading machine than its older forked counterparts. Google may be the only company capable of a slugfest with Amazon and Apple Finally, Google's in a good position to break up some of the power monopolies in digital reading.
Book publishers are deeply unhappy with Amazon, and magazine publishers aren't wildly happier with Apple. Google may be the only company with the money, resources, global reach, and platform power to stay standing in a slugfest with Amazon or Apple.
If that means more competition and better choices for customers, so much the better. It's all a question of whether Google actually cares about these businesses enough to stay focused on them. It should care.
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