Apple adds iBooks to iPhone 4.0

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Apr 8, 2010 a 1:49 pm

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Midway through the big iPhone 4.0 announcements today and Apple has just introduced iBooks to the iPhone, bringing it up to eBook par with its big iPad brother launched last weekend.

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There are 4 comments. Add yours.

dloveprod says:

Apr 8, 2010 at 1:52 pm - 3 years ago

I don't read that many books outside school but this is still a nice addition.

icebike says:

Apr 8, 2010 at 2:23 pm - 3 years ago

There is no shortage of Ebook readers on the iPhone.
Adding one more won't help Apple, and won't help the users.
Shovelware at best.

auprogrammer says:

Apr 8, 2010 at 3:40 pm - 3 years ago

icebike, yeah, that's why they've already sold 600,000 books in 5 days. It's not just another reader. I work for a large book company and they've got everyone but Amazon looking for answers. Amazon's reader runs on the iPhone and the iPad. It will slow Kindle hardware sales, but won't significantly hurt Kindle book sales.