International iBookstores opening on May 28th in most countries
Apple has confirmed that iBooks and the iBookstore will be available in all of the listed countries with the exception of Germany and Switzerland, and we'll be sure to update this post as soon as we've received word that those two countries have been added to the list (we're starting a rumor here that Apple has to stock up on digital umlauts and eszetts before opening these iBookstores).
For those of you who will be getting your hands on an iPad soon and want to take advantage of the many books that are already available in the iBooks epub format, be sure to read Erica Sadun's post about filling up your iBookShelf. The post, and the comments that accompany it, offer some suggestions for fun and entertaining books. And remember, you can always use Stanza or Calibre to convert other document formats for reading in iBooks.
[via MacRumors]
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When iPads fall into the eager hands of Apple fans in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on...
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Since iBooks are Unicode-formated, ä, ö, ü, and à are not a problem.
May 10 2010 at 3:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAlso, in the French language, there are even more of these letters: é, è, ê, â, à , ç, etc., and they have iBooks too.
May 10 2010 at 3:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo stop those stupid jokes, please. Thanks.
May 10 2010 at 4:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat's the secret password to get to foreign-language books on the iBook store?
May 07 2010 at 2:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyit's up to the publishers. I suspect Apple is working on it.
now what I want is to be able to buy an App or a book that is avail in another country and 'gift' it to someone there. which it seems I can't do. it would make presents for the family overseas so much easier cause they are total gadget geeks and are already making plans to get ipads, updated phones etc
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