From Dishman:Īnother reason to go the app route lies in the limited functionality of the. However, they are focused strictly on the apps. contributor Lydia Dishman discussed how Random House, HarperCollins and other publishers announced children e-book initiatives. Publishers aren't sticking around for the iBookstore update. Venture into the iBookstore itself, however, and it hasn't progressed much more than the pageflipping animation showed off in April. Six months later, the situation hasn't changed: There are now dozens, if not hundreds of cool, interactive stand-alone books on the iPad. Make audio/visual titles iBooks, not app: A week after the iBooks launch, my Gadget Watch column as well as other blogs were concerned that the truly groundbreaking books, like Atomic Antelope's pop-up Alice, were being launched as separate apps. You can forgive Apple for not embracing every platform under the sun, given its walled-garden business model - but it's just stupid not to allow Mac users to read Apple e-books. Meanwhile, the Kindle platform is available on:

IBooks on Mac/PC: No, iBook readers still can't enjoy their books on their home computer.

Having a web-based preview system would encourage purchasing while still keeping the main book inside the Apple ecosystem. Consumers can get a synopsis and reviews in iTunes, but no actual text. Previewing books on the iBookstore requires downloading iBooks on an Apple device.