Apple’s iBookstore is an online store that sells electronic versions of books. These iBooks can be downloaded from iBookstore and then read on your iPad. The iBookstore collection holds over 200,000 books – many of them free – and it’s growing every day.
It’s easy to use iBookstore – you can 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 On iBookstore
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 Listen to an author read their favourite passages, watch supplementary videos, or browse a library of photos or unpublished excerpts.
Reading On An iPad
Reading on an iPad is just like reading a book. You hold your iPad like a book and flip the pages like a book (think about how you use touch to operate an iPhone). You do it all with your hands — just like a book. But once you tap open the first page, you’ll discover that 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.
