- Not to be confused with iBook, Apple's discontinued line of consumer notebooks.
iBooks running on an iPad 2.
iBooks is an e-book application by Apple Inc. It was announced in conjunction with the iPad on January 27, 2010, and was released for the iPhone and iPod touch in June 2010 as part of the iOS 4 update. At that time, it was initially available only in the United States. OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) added iBooks for the Mac in 2014. It has since been replaced by Apple Books.
Content[]
iBooks receives ePub content primarily from the iBookstore, but users can also add their own ePub and PDF files via data synchronization with iTunes. Additionally, they can be downloaded to iBooks through Safari or Apple Mail. It is also capable of displaying e-books that incorporate multimedia. According to product information as of March 2010, iBooks will be able to "read the contents of any page [to the user]" using VoiceOver.
External links[]
- iBooks at Apple (archived 2013-12-19, 2010-03-15)
- iBooks at Logopedia
- Apple Books: History at Wikipedia
