![]() ![]() There are two different ways to buy ebooks and download free samples from Amazon on the iPad. With so many third-party apps available that offer the same ebooks-which can be viewed on multiple devices-I don't see how any informed person would choose to buy ebooks from Apple and be locked into just the iPad. The iPad is a marvelous machine, but that doesn't mean Apple's iBookstore is going to dominate the ebook market. In fact, you cannot even browse the iBookstore without an iPad to see what the selection and pricing is like.Īnother major advantage Amazon has over Apple's ebooks is that they are available to people in over 175 countries, whereas iBooks are US only at this point.Īll these factors make you wonder what these analysts are analyzing to already be digging a grave for Amazon and the Kindle in the ebook industry. ![]() As for Apple's iBooks, they can only be viewed on an iPad, nothing else. They have apps for iPhone, iPad, PC and Mac computers, Blackberry, and others are supposed to be coming soon. Secondly, Amazon's ebooks are no longer confined to just the Kindle. ![]() I'd say a fair estimate would be a total of 100,000 - 150,000 titles by the end of the year, provided the free public domain ebooks remain at around 30,000. Keep in mind that the iBookstore just launched at the start of April, so it's going to take them time to get a selection built up. There are a number of holes in that theory, so lets start with the most obvious one: ebook selection.Īmazon currently has over 480,000 ebooks in the Kindle store, a number they have been building on for years.Īt launch, the Apple iBookstore was reportedly supposed to have about 60,000 ebooks, with half of them free public domain titles from Project Gutenberg-from my experience there's no where near that many titles available at the moment. ![]()
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