Google is now accepting pre-orders for books on its store. The pre-order addition was first exposed in an APK teardown of the new Play store by Androidpolice and they’ve since gone live. The pre-order procedure now has its own help page here, which details ordering, cancellation and more.
There are already titles in the store that have the new pre-order button, rather than the standard ‘buy’ option. The Death of Bees, for instance, is due out on Google Play in January of 2013.
As with standard pre-order procedures, you’re only charged when the book is actually available. The addition of pre-orders is the second addition to the store today, as it now connects Google+ IDs with public reviews, which will feature your name and image. This should help to cut down on the amount of spammy and outrageous reviews.
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The Google Play store joins the iBookstore and Amazon’s Kindle store in offering pre-orders. Both of those competitors have been doing it for some time.
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