Can I use national book tokens (UK) to buy an ebook in the apple books app? If so, how?

You can't, the only gift cards that you can can use are Apple's own cards (e.g. iTunes, App Store), not those from other stores/companies.

Unfortunately not, which is a real shame given the scheme's incentive to raise reading standards. Apple accepting these tokens would be a powerful gesture of goodwill, backing up their intent to support learning at a young age (their iPad at schools scheme, whilst not without its worries, is largely a good thing)

Blackwells DO allow you to redeem National Book Tokens, but unfortunately you'll need to read them not on Apple's native Book app, but by way of a third party app. I am told "Bluefire" is excellent, and worth the one-off £3.99 cost (albeit there are likely to be multiple free 'reader apps' out there too, but no doubt featuring ads!) See Blackwell's site: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/home . Just search for the name of the book you fancy, and you'll see in their "Format" tab whether or not it's available as an eBook (most are)

It's a shame that Apple's DRM software constraints won't allow you to view a book paid for and downloaded in the very format their Book app supports! Hopefully that will change

Best,

Lee

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