What is iBook store

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 200,000 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. With iCloud, you can have the new books you buy on your iPad automatically download to your iPhone and iPod touch, too. So they appear on your bookshelf everywhere you want them. Just tap and dive in.

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  Olivia
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  Tron
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  Splat the Cat

Read, look, and listen.

Download gorgeous, full-page illustrated children’s books, cookbooks, and art books. Flip through Enhanced Books, where you can hear an author read a favorite passage, watch supplementary video, or flick through a library of photo extras for the inside story. Or listen to a narrator bring a book to life with the read-aloud feature.

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.

Riveting technology.

With most books in iBooks, you can change the text size and the font. Jump to any chapter right from the table of contents. Touch and hold a word to look it up in the built-in dictionary or Wikipedia, or to search for it on the web or inside the book. iBooks works with VoiceOver, the screen reader in iPad, so it can read you the contents of any page. And you can listen to your music while you’re reading. A great song really pulls the story along.

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, iCloud saves your place across all your devices.² So you can start a book on your iPad and pick up where you left off on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Works with iCloud

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.