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Sleeptite Author

Level 1

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How Can I Read iBooks on my Laptop?

On my Laptop, I can:
a) Listen to songs I purchased, with iTunes
b) Listen to podcasts I subscribe to, with iTunes
c) Listen to Audio Books I purchased, with iTunes
d) Watch Videos i purchased, with iTunes

WHY CAN"T I READ BOOKS I PURCHASED with iBooks, with iTunes?

Amazon's Kindle lets me read Kindle Books on my iPad, my iPhone, and my LAPTOP.
Shouldn't APPLE let me do the same?
Please, Apple, give me an iBook Reader for my laptop.

iMac 21, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 17, 2010 4:57 PM

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Tom Gewecke

Level 10

118,602 points

Posted on Jul 18, 2010 3:19 AM

Please, Apple, give me

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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129348

Level 1

5 points

Jan 6, 2015 2:26 AM in response to Sleeptite

sending feedback now

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

118,602 points

Jan 6, 2015 5:01 AM in response to 129348

129348 wrote:

sending feedback now

What for? Apple released iBooks for OS X back in 2013

May 4, 2016 2:58 PM in response to Sleeptite

The simple answer, since Apple doesn't care about their customers, is to just not buy books from Apple. Books purchased from Amazon work on literally everything. Maybe if Apple sees a major exodus of iBooks users, they'll start to listen.

Jun 22, 2016 11:54 AM in response to Sleeptite

You're completely right, I just bought LotR for my iPhone and I'm surprised and frustrated that I can't read it on my desktop. I actually prefer the iBooks app, but I'm going to be using Google Play Books for now on.

This is a serious flaw on Apple's part.😠

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

118,602 points

Jun 22, 2016 12:30 PM in response to Alex Leigh

Alex Leigh wrote:

You're completely right, I just bought LotR for my iPhone and I'm surprised and frustrated that I can't read it on my desktop.

Is yours a Windows desktop? Apple provided the app needed to read books from the iBookstore on Mac desktops 3 years ago already.

Jun 23, 2016 4:59 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

It is new, but its PC and I've been unable to find an app to read iBooks on PC. What confuses me the most ids why they don't have a web browser reader like literally ever other major eBook reader out there.

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

118,602 points

Jun 23, 2016 5:50 AM in response to Alex Leigh

Alex Leigh wrote:

I've been unable to find an app to read iBooks on PC. What confuses me the most ids why they don't have a web browser reader like literally ever other major eBook reader out there.

It would appear that Apple gives higher priority to selling ipads than to expanding the market for ibooks to android/windows. Logicially I would have expected them to have produced iBooks apps for those other platforms years ago. They do state on every purchase page in the iBookstore what devices are required to read their books, but many buyers don't read it.

appreciate

Level 4

1,278 points

Jun 23, 2016 6:28 AM in response to Sleeptite

An apple article is there : About iBooks - Apple Support

Jul 10, 2017 8:12 AM in response to brentboren

Thanks, that was very helpful. Here's the link to the pc download page: http://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html

King_Penguin

Level 10

334,204 points

Jul 10, 2017 8:20 AM in response to alisonorr

Obviously that won't let you read an ibook that has DRM

How Can I Read iBooks on my Laptop?