iBookstore customers can choose from a wide selection of illustrated and video - enhanced books that look incredible on iPad ™, including Jay - Z's memoir «Decoded» and Bing West's «The Wrong War»; bestselling children's series such as Magic Tree House and Junie B. Jones; and cookbooks by Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, and the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten.
After the initial two week promotion, the catalog may become a regular feature in the Australia and New Zealand stores, providing yet another path for
iBookstore customers to easily discover, sample and purchase Smashwords titles.
By customer - driven, I mean that the more Apple
iBookstore customers who purchase and review your book, the more visible your book becomes in the store... By editorially - driven, I mean that the Apple merchandising team hand - selects quality books that meet the interests of their customers.
Not exact matches
«E-book sales grew 100 % last year at the
iBookstore and it had over 100 million
customers,» Moerer said, per Publisher's Weekly.
On the first day, Apple says
customers downloaded more than 250,000 eBooks — it calls them iBooks — in its
iBookstore.
The last thing the online retailer wants is for its
customers to have a reason to test out the
iBookstore instead of that free iPad app they currently use.
«Online stores like Amazon and
iBookstore are an important part of building your platform and earning an income,» said Spatz, «but they don't provide you with direct
customer connections.
Even Apple and its
iBookstore (or whatever they call it) has been a disaster in terms of
customer uptake.
At the low price range, Kagi's bite of the sales price is about the same as that from Smashwords, Amazon, and the
iBookstore, but those
customers are your
customers.
Under current terms, the publishers would distribute approximately $ 162.25 million to
customers who bought e-books at any digital outlet between the
iBookstore's launch on April 1st, 2010 and May 21st, 2012.
This is a great move by Random House to give
customers accessing the United Kingdom version of the
iBookstore access to some of the best authors in the Fiction genre such as James Patterson, John Grisham and Frederick Forsyth.
But Apple's plan to use FairPlay instead of Adobe's flavor of copy protection will lock
customers in to Apple's ecosystem, says Bogaty, as iPad owners will only be able to buy from Apple's
iBookstore, and will not be able to transfer their purchases to other devices.
In the DOJ's opening argument, attorney Lawrence Buterman described the launch of the
iBookstore in April 2010 as «the day the prices of the most popular ebooks went up across the United States as much as 50 percent... The $ 9.99 price for ebooks that [
customers] had become accustomed to was largely gone.»
In practical terms, this means that if a
customer purchases a DRM - protected EPUB - format book in the Apple
iBookstore, for instance, they can only read the book on Apple hardware, such as the iPad or iPhone.
for their free email marketing guides by giving prospects and
customers three files: PDF, Mobi (Kindle) and ePub (Nook,
iBookstore, etc.).
Apple and the
iBookstore benefit greatly from mobile reading growth — for example, Kindle
customers are increasingly reading books through their respective iPhone apps;