While iPhones and iPads are quite popular, the total number of Windows PCs and Macs out there is staggeringly large. IBooks? They're only available for iPad and iPhone - that's it. At this point, Kindle books are readable on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone 7. One of the things that Amazon has done right is to release a Kindle reader app for just about every computing platform on the planet, in addition to having its own reader device (of course).
#Third party books in ibooks for mac
Release an iBook reader app for Mac and Windows Read more to see some suggestions on what Apple could do to better compete with Amazon's Kindle ebookstore and dominate the ebook market the way that the iPod and iTunes have come to rule the music business. But I still go to the Kindle Store for most of my ebooks simply because I can find what I want to read.ĭuring a discussion with several of my fellow bloggers yesterday, it occurred to me that there are a few things that the Kindle electronic publishing platform does much better than the iBookstore. Personally, I do like the look of iBooks a lot more than I do Kindle books, and I find incredible numbers of typos in Kindle books. Although it seems as if things are slowly getting better, I still find myself searching for electronic books in both the iBookstore and Kindle Store, and the majority of the time I buy them from Amazon. Last October, one of our bloggers noted that the iBookstore was " one big failure," citing the lack of titles as his main concern.
Just last week, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos announced that the company is now selling slightly more electronic books than the dead-tree versions.
#Third party books in ibooks for free
TUAW was contacted by Apple's media team, and they told us that "anyone can submit books to sell on iBookstore easily, and for free at /sellyourbooks." We apologize for the error.Īpple's iBooks app and the iBookstore have been available since March of last year, but don't appear to have made as much of an impact as the much older Kindle platform from Amazon. Update: The original version of this post cited a $99 fee to set up publishing for books via the iBookstore, which was incorrect while the developer program $99 fee applies to books-as-apps, it does not apply to iBooks themselves.
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