Apple Books vs Google Books
January 17, 2026 | Author: Maria Lin
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Default app for reading and listening to audiobooks on iOS that also features a bookstore with top bestsellers, free classics, hand-curated selections from experts and personalized recommendations. You can add your own ePub and m4b books via iTunes or the cloud. Apple CarPlay lets you listen to audiobooks while driving. Books sync across all your Apple devices. The app lets you track what you've read and what you want to read, and set your own reading goals. The reader features an "Automatic Night Theme" mode and adjustable screen brightness for a more comfortable reading experience.
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Google Books is a service that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search. Discover a new favorite or unearth an old classic.
Apple Books vs Google Books in our news:
2025. Apple sued by authors for illegal AI training on books
Apple has received a lawsuit from group of book authors who claim that the company trained its AI - Apple Intelligence - on large repositories of pirated ebooks, specifically Books3, a massive dataset containing nearly 200,000 illegally copied works. Lawsuits over AI training on pirated books are now involving significant sums of money. Recently, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of authors who accused the company of using their books to train its chatbot, Claude, without permission. In June, Microsoft was sued by a group of authors who claimed the company used their books to train its Megatron model. Meta also faced claims for allegedly infringing copyrighted material in AI training, but in the end won the case.
2023. Apple Books is bringing back page turn animation on iOS
Apple is bringing back page turn animation in Books app in the latest iOS ***
2014. Apple acquired book discovery site BookLamp
Apple acquired book recommendation service BookLamp, known as Pandora of books. It connects readers to books they would enjoy using its Book Genome technology. The platform is capable of breaking a single book down into thousands of separate data points that tell you what the book is about, and why or why not it may be suitable for you. Apple will presumably use the company's technology to improve its own book store, iBooks, which houses more than 2 million free and paid book titles. BookLamp.org has since shut down its service, but here's a look at what we know about the company and its technology.
