The iBookstore is just the beginning.

Start with the bookshelf. With a tap, it flips around to reveal the iBookstore, where you’ll find over 700,000 books and counting — many of them free. View what’s featured on the iBookstore and the New York Times best-seller lists, or browse by title, author, or genre. Find a book you like and tap to see more details, peruse reviews, even read a free sample. Just download the book and it appears on your bookshelf, ready to read. And if you have iBooks on iPad, you can download new Multi-Touch textbooks from the Textbook section of the iBookstore.

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It’s a really great read.

Reading on iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad is just like reading a book. But once you tap to turn page one, you’ll see it’s nothing like a book. Read one page at a time, or turn your device on its side and view two pages at once. Tap to read everything full screen, with no distractions, or read in
white-on-black nighttime mode. Even alter the look of most books by changing their text size and font.

All the highlights. And the notes. And the definitions.

Use your finger as a highlighter when you’re reading any textbook on your iPad. Just swipe over the selected text, and it’s highlighted. Tap a highlighted section and a palette appears. Change colors, switch to underline, or add a note instantly. Then switch to the Notes view to see all your notes and highlights instantly organized in one place, making it a cinch to search or go back to the highlighted sections of your book.

New Multi-Touch textbooks for iPad.

Experience the most amazing textbooks you’ve ever read. Textbooks that take advantage of everything iPad can do with Multi-Touch, audio, video, and more. Textbooks that capture the imagination and take learning to a whole new level. With iBooks textbooks, you can flip through a book by sliding a finger along thumbnail images of the pages. Now you’re no longer limited to the flat images in a paper textbook: Flick through an entire photo gallery instead. Use a finger to rotate a 3D object. Or have the right answer spring to life in a chapter review. It’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced. And it’s something you won’t want to put down.

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Put PDFs on your bookshelf.

Organize your bookshelf by your collection of books. PDFs — user guides, business proposals, project plans — all go on your bookshelf, too. When someone emails you a PDF, open it in iBooks. Or sync the PDFs on your Mac or PC to your iPad in iTunes. Then go to your bookshelf and tap to open one.