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ibookstore’s big challenge — cheaper ebooks online for ipad

Number of ebooks on ibookstore.

No one doubt ibook’s cool experience on ipad ,as a great advanced e-reader, just as described on Apple’s official site, “Reading is a joy on ipad”.

 Apple said on the day of launch of ipad ,the IBookstore will provide more than 60,000 titles separated into 14 categories.including “cookbooks,food&wine ” and “Comic & Graphic Novels” , and a part of collection is from Project Gutenberg.

 Price of ebook on ibookstore

Most titles on ibook are priced at .99 that is a competitive price with Kindle store. A handy button at the bottom of the store section takes you to the current new York Times bestsellers;most of the are .99 per copy.

 What type of ebook format supported on ipad?

Please notice this, what makes ipad unique is that we have a choice of eBook readers. Ibook app is not the only choice. This means All the ebook format can be supported with specific app.

 We can use iBook app to read Fairplay DRM epub books

We can use Kindle app to read Kindle DRM books.

We can use Stanza app to read Adobe DRM ePub books.

Etc…

So ebooks that can be read on the iPad include:

PDF,

Fairplay DRM epub,

Adobe DRM epub,

Kindle DRM epub

iSilo books,

Doc,

Plain Texf books.

 Where to get cheaper ebooks other than ibook?

1. Mypadmeia ：This site announced thousands of ebooks(more than 30000) to download incluing almost all popular Genres : Bestsellers ,Fiction ,Business ,Classics, Children’s books ,Romance and more . Plus Newspapers from around the world can be found here, also with lots of magazines. But have to give one-time fee for lifetime unlimited downloads.

 2. epubbooks.com: This site provide free epub books , books are totally free ,but the titiles there are limited ,about 800 books published .

 3. ManyBooks.net: This site provide tons of ebooks in almost all format, nearly 28000ebooks there in different languages. Its great.

 4. bean.com: This sites have lots of free ebooks ,but not all of them are free.

 So, rather than ibookstore We do have many choice to enojoy ipad reading with less pay,even no pay for any ebooks. 

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