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iBooks app now available in App Store

by Michael Grothaus Apr 2nd 2010 at 8:00AM

The app's page also states that only the ePub format is supported and to add ePub books from outside of the iBookstore to the iBooks app, they must be DRM-free and synced to the iPad using iTunes 9.1 or later. The iBooks app is free.

I think I just heard Jeff Bezos shaking in his reading jacket.

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dextergregor

IBookstore and iBooks app for the ipad finally available in France. Only free books are available at the moment though.

May 26 2010 at 2:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RosieRox

I'm with you! It would have behooved Apple to have the iBooks app available for both the iPad and iPod/iPhone. It would make it more simpler for us with an iTunes account to use our funds there to purchase an e-book from the iBookstore instead having to use other numerous funds to buy an e-book from B&N, Amazon Kindle, etc. I like one-stop shopping for my iPod and I would have been more apt to consider an iPad if they had made the iBooks app available for all Apple's touch devices!

April 02 2010 at 8:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kento Ito

From what I know from my friend at Apple HQ in Cupertino, iBooks will support iPhone when iPhone OS 4.0 is out this summer. (and for the record, all iPhone OS 4.0 beta users will be able to start using iBooks app immediately when beta is available)

April 02 2010 at 7:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gshearman

Papers for iPad is available now and looks great: http://mekentosj.com/papers/ipad/

April 02 2010 at 7:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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gshearman

My comment above was meant to be in response to Noah Ramon.

April 02 2010 at 7:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jay

Yes, it's all a conspiracy.

April 02 2010 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Noah Ramon

Hm. The lack of PDF support is ... troubling. Has anyone announced an iPad-enhanced PDF reader yet? (I've got a LOT of PDFs of role-playing games, and the allure of using the iPad to carry those around is tempting - but if they aren't really supported...)

April 02 2010 at 12:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Joe

PDF is natively supported by the iPad as it always has been with the iPhone so all you would need is to email them to yourself (which I could understand may not be a great solution for most people, myself included) or get a file manager which I expect will pop up in the app store in no time. And I did spot a $1.99 pdf reader whilst browsing through the store yesterday.

What I want to know is why they cant release ibooks internationally just without the store until they get the proper rights. At least that way international users like me could use the sync non-drm books feature that was a nice suprise.

April 02 2010 at 12:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

So I can buy DRM protected books from Apple that can only be read on the iPad, or DRM protected books from Amazon, that can be read on... well, most any popular platform. If I have to put up with DRM, I don't see any advantage to buying from Apple.

April 02 2010 at 11:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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KP

Yeah right now Apple is kind of at a disadvantage. I would be happy to switch my future book purchases to iBooks. I read books on my iPhone and Mac, and yet I can't buy iBooks, but I can buy Kindle.

I don't need another device to carry around -- even if the iPad was free -- and this exclusive iPad-only app only forces me to continue to give my money to Amazon instead of Apple.

April 02 2010 at 5:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Todd

You can use it with non-DRM'd epub format books. You are not locked into only buying from the ibookstore. You can also use Stanza or other alternative readers. So what's left to hate on, lil' hater?

April 02 2010 at 10:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Ramsay

Available, excepting for the rest of the World!

April 02 2010 at 10:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Grant Buell

Jesus, man. If you want to read books on your iPhone, read books on your iPhone. Repeat the following with me: You Don't Have To Buy An iPad.

April 02 2010 at 10:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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