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!
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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!
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.
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.
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.
Thanks! For some reason it keeps telling me to open in iBooks. :-/
CML1212 wrote:
Thanks! For some reason it keeps telling me to open in iBooks. :-/
Could you explain in detail what kind of machine you are using and where you get that message in the process?
It looks like you are right, iTunes for Windows can no longer buy ebooks. Audiobooks should still be possible, however.
”Hopefully Apple will get their book app on other platforms like Amazon did with kindle.”
Kindle is owned by Amazon as Books is owned by Apple.
Purchasing iBooks online as gifts without device