Communication is a Virus - Apple's view on its iBooks

iBooks - A novel way to read books


You’ll be even more well read once you get your hands on iBooks. Download the iBooks app from the App Store. Load up on books from the iBookstore. Take them to more places than you’d ever take a regular book. And right when you pull one out on your iPad, you’ll be pulled right in.

The iBookstore is just the beginning.

Start with the bookshelf to buy and read your books. With a tap, it flips around to reveal the iBookstore, where you’ll find over 150,000 books and counting — many of them free. View what’s featured on the iBookstore and the New York Times best-seller lists, or browse by title, author, or genre. When you find a book you like, tap to see more details, peruse reviews, even read a free sample. Once you download a book, it appears on your bookshelf. Just tap and dive in.

Illustrated books. Brilliant beyond words.

Download gorgeous, full-page illustrated children’s books, cookbooks, and art books. Or flip through Enhanced Books, where words, pictures, audio, and video come together. Listen to an author read a favorite passage, watch supplementary video, or flick through a library of photos or unpublished excerpts.

It’s a really great read.


Reading on iPad is just like reading a book. You hold iPad like a book and flip the pages like a book. And you do it all with your hands — just like a book. But once you tap open the first page, you’ll see it’s nothing like a book. Read one page at a time in portrait. Or turn iPad on its side and view two pages at once. Either way you look at it, the bright LED-backlit display brings crisp and colorful detail to every page, without using illumination. So illustrations and images — and brilliant writing — appear just as the author intended.

Always find your place.

The page navigator shows you where you are in the story. And you can use the bookmark feature to highlight text and make notes — perfect for students. When you take a reading break, iBooks saves your place across all your devices. So you can start a book on your iPad and pick up where you left off on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Put PDFs on your bookshelf.

Organize your bookshelf by your collection of books. PDFs — user guides, business proposals, project plans — all go on your bookshelf, too. When someone emails you a PDF, open it in iBooks. Or sync the PDFs on your Mac or PC to your iPad in iTunes. Then go to your bookshelf and tap to open one.

Source: http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/ibooks.html