Apple's iBooks Platform Seeing 1 Million New Users Per Week After iOS 8

Mac Rumors ^ | 1/17/15 | Juli Clover

[Enlightened1]

Apple's iBooks platform is seeing an average of a million new users per week after the company's decision to ship iOS 8 with the app pre-installed, according to Apple Director of iBooks Keith Moerer, who spoke today at the Digital Book World Conference.

efore iOS 8, the iBooks app had to be searched for and downloaded from the App Store, putting it on par with several other App Store-based e-books apps like Amazon's Kindle app for iOS. Pre-installing iBooks made it "so easy" for new users to try iBooks for the first time, said Moerer. Family Sharing, also new in iOS 8, helped to improve customer acquisition as well.

[GeronL]

All they had to do was make it part of the next upgrade... big whoop.

[Star Traveler]

Something for you ...

[kingu]

So...Microsoft is/was forbidden from including Internet Explorer on European installations of Windows, because it was deemed an unfair business practice.

Wonder if Apple’s about to feel the same pain?

[Talisker]

I read somewhere that Amazon spent $100 million selling diapers at a loss in order to break diaper.com, and buy it out.

I literally laugh out loud when I hear people put these liberal high tech CEOs on moral pedestals. I think they find it pretty amusing, too.

[Tanniker Smith]

Had iBooks on the old and the current iPad. Still use kindle.

Actuallly, I was annoyed because it lost two of my books between the old machine and the new. One I was done with (although I never got around to writing a review .... ) , but the other was a huge anthology I'd only gone partway through and it isn't available anymore.

all my kindle books seem to still be there.

[Swordmaker]

Apple has been adding 1 million iBooks readers a week since releasing iBooks as an included App with iOS 8 — PING!

Apple iBook Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

So...Microsoft is/was forbidden from including Internet Explorer on European installations of Windows, because it was deemed an unfair business practice.

Sorry, you are not comparing anything close to the same thing. Microsoft was SELLING Windows 7 with a preferential inclusion of their browser Internet Explorer.

Apple is not SELLING iOS 8 with iBooks. iOS has never been sold. iBooks itself was never sold. It was always offered as a FREE download from Apple's App Store. Nor was it competing against other readers being SOLD, as all the other readers are also downloadable for FREE on the App store.

[Swordmaker]

Actuallly, I was annoyed because it lost two of my books between the old machine and the new. One I was done with (although I never got around to writing a review .... ) , but the other was a huge anthology I'd only gone partway through and it isn't available anymore.

If you bought or downloaded an iBook, you can re-download it. The iBook store keeps a record of your purchases/downloads. You won't loses anything. Try it. Put in your Apple ID. . . and just re-download it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That was the first thought I had, too. Is Apple in in inviting more antitrust scrutiny? Or is their market share too low?

[avenir]

Comment from the site:

“DON’T DO IT - don’t get started on the iBooks App, you’ll forever lose control of the books to Apple. Use the Kindle App for Mac, buy only Kindle ebooks (same price, better / more selections) and if you want to switch to an Android phone or tablet, later, your books move with you.”—RedOrchestra