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iBooks app now available in App Store

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 2nd, 2010)

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. ...

Project Gutenberg books will work on the iPad

by Chris Rawson (Mar 23rd, 2010)

If you don't already know about Project Gutenberg, you should. The site has over 30,000 free ebooks, most of them classics whose copyrights have lapsed. The site includes big-name titles from big-name authors, representing everyone from Dante Alighieri to H.G. Wells. The site's free digital ebooks ...

Apple forces Stanza to nix USB book sharing

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 2nd, 2010)

Those who enjoy USB book sharing their ePub and eReader files in the current version of Stanza [iTunes link] will want to avoid the 2.1 version of the software, currently being distributed in the App Store. The update notes reveal that Apple apparently ordered Lexcycle to remove the USB sharing ...

All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple's iBookstore

by Steven Sande (Jan 31st, 2010)

Overlooked in much of the hype about the iPad announcement earlier in the week was a comment by Steve Jobs in the Keynote presentation where he mentioned that the iBooks app for iPad would take advantage of the popular EPUB format for electronic books. Since we're all going to get a lot more ...