iBooks for iPad Now Available in US App Store
Apple's iBooks and integrated iBookstore is now available for pre-download from the iTunes App Store [Free - iTunes link]. Due to licensing and the other insanities that keep publishing in the dark ages, it's US only for the time being, and while its purported 60,000 ePub-format catalog isn't the biggest, the integration with Project Gutenberg and ability to pull in other free ePub content will certainly keep you busy while Apple keeps ramping it up.
iBooks requires the just-released iTunes 9.1 to manage and sync iBooks ePub and DRM-free ePub content, so make sure you're all up to date. Then get reading and let us know how the experience compares to Amazon's Kindle, Sony's eReader, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and -- why not! -- one of them paper and ink real book jobbies!
Apple Guided Tour after the break!
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I've acually found reading on my iPhone pleasant at night. I think the same will be said about the ipad...eventually.
Anyone see the ipad kindle app yet?
to me, there's something to be said about reading 'one of them paper and ink real book jobbies.' not to mention it's the only thing you can do during take-off and landing...
No word on an iPhone version of iBooks?
I hope it comes out for the iPhone soon. It's pretty stupid that while you can buy Kindle books for the Kindle, iPhone and iPad, you can't even buy iBooks for the iPhone. Apple is basically forcing their own hardware users to buy Kindle instead of iBooks.
And if their logic is that I will pay $500 and carry a separate device just to read their format of books, well sorry, that's not going to happen and I will continue giving Amazon my money instead.