Purchasing iBooks online as gifts without device

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Purchasing iBooks online as gifts without device

Hi! I’m trying to gift an iBook to a friend of mine who only reads on Apple Books. However, I don’t have an Apple device. Do I have to buy her a .99 cent gift card? That’s so embarrassing if so!

Posted on Jan 22, 2020 6:22 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 24, 2020 4:38 AM in response to picas

picas wrote:

Kindle is owned by Amazon as Books is owned by Apple.

But Amazon created a variety of Kindle apps so that Amazon books can be read on every platform. Apple for some reason has never yet created a Books app for anything but Apple devices. So if you want to sell your books to everybody who runs Windows or Android (75% of the world or so), your only choice is Amazon.

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CML1212 Author

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Jan 23, 2020 8:02 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I tried from iTunes. I can get to the book store but when I click on the book it takes me to the book in chrome but then says open in iBooks. There’s no way to buy it on a PC without the app. However, I found a site that said I can use an emulator so I’m going to try that. It’ll be useful for other things as well. :) THANK YOU! For your help!!! Hopefully Apple will get their book app on other platforms like Amazon did with kindle.

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