Google Starts Selling Books Designed for Smartphones

TheVerge: Google’s new Editions at Play initiative aims to “sell books that cannot be printed.” It’s a simple manifesto that marks an interesting foray into the digital arts for Google. Editions at Play is all about exploring the idea of “digital books” — not just ebooks, but books that simply can’t exist on static, printed paper. The first books in the effort are both designed to be read on a smartphone and are short reads.