Apple looking to hire iBookstore marketing manager

This shows they are serious about growing this market on their devices.

That's a good job for me ! Damien P. CEO of Loccasion.com

Until Apple decides to allow multiple devices to share a single ebook (Kindle allows up to five devices), I'll stick with the Kindle store. The iPad is a better reader than the Kindle, no argument -- so we'll use it to read our Kindle content.

for iBooks to work we need books in more languages! C'mon Apple give us more languages

I previously loved iBooks, but Amazon arguably has the largest content from classics to today. The majority of novels I need for class are found on Amazon (or Gutenberg) compared to iBookstore.

Both readers (iBooks and Kindle App) have it's features, but lately I've been enjoying Amazon's.

The problem Apple has with the iBook store is there simply are not enough books. Books are not like music- the latest and new releases (which iBooks has the most of) are not the bread and butter of the book world. Books from five years or ten years ago that have become "classics" in their own right are needed on the iBook store. Fiver year old music- no one cares about!

I searched for ten books that I wanted to buy on iBooks. NONE of them were available. All but three are available as a Kindle edition.

All they have to do do drive my sales is get more books into the store, and make the store itself not suck quite so much for searching.

I always look in iBooks first. Then, when they inevitably don't have what I'm looking for, I go buy it from Amazon, crack the DRM, convert to ePub, and put it into iBooks on the iPad.

(I know you can use the Kindle app on the iPad, but the whole thing of using a different reader depending on where you bought the book, and having your library split between readers, is not going to fly. And iBooks is a way better reader.)

You know what I would love to see, not just on the iBooks store but with digital books in general, is to get the digital version when you buy a physical one. Like you see on some DVDs.

Top of my list is integrating more functionality on the bookshelf. As it stands, there's no way to mark books as read or unread, and no way to keep track of books you've read / owned in the past. I'd love to see some sort of integration with Shelfari.com or Delicious Library for a third shelf (possibly 'hardcopy owned'?) just so I can keep track of things all in one place. Apple would benefit too, as they'd have a much more complete catalogue of purchases to work with for their 'Genius' recommendations engine.

Of course, top of anyone's list would be the ability to buy digital versions of books they already own for a reduced price, but I doubt the publishers would ever let that happen, even if they were able to make more money from it.

There are a few reasons I buy ebooks from Amazon vs the IBookstore.
One is I can browse the Amazon store from my desktop so if I see a good book recommendation I can quickly see if it's available no matter what computer/device I am using. Secondly, the iBook selection sucks they have no where near the amount of books Amazon has, my searches have come up empty so often I've stopped checking. Apple build a desktop ibook store and improve their selection if they want to compete with Amazon. I hope they do because I prefer the iBook reading experience to the Kindle app.