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Google brings YouTube movie rentals and eBooks to the UK

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UK users are waking up to a ton of new content courtesy of Google and, specifically, courtesy of the YouTube rental service previously only available in the U.S. and Canada.

With over 1,000 titles to choose from, the service will offer 48 hour retails ranging from £2.49 to £3.49. It’s of course available via the “Movies” link in the upper right of YouTube, but is also accessible through Google TV, Android tablets and certain smartphones running Honeycomb.

From the Official YouTube blog:

We’ve got some cracking films to keep everyone entertained through the upcoming winter months and beyond. From blockbusters like The Dark Knight and Reservoir Dogs, to new releases such as Hanna, Fast Five, and Red Riding Hood, and even British classics like Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

UK customers can head over to youtube.com/movies to check it out. 

Google also just opened up their eBooks store with over 3,000,000 books to UK customers through google.co.uk/ebooks. The eBook store, as always, is available through PCs, and Android and Apple devices, but not Amazon’s Kindle lineup.

(via DailyMail)

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