ibooks store is only free books - all ancient classics

Apple publishes some info on what's available where:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3599

Identical problem in Greece. Only free ancient books are available. Even if greek publishers are forwarding you to ibookstore for purchasing their ebooks!

Regards

I have downloaded the Kindle ap onto my IPhone. It allows you to purchase books through Kindle(amazon). I have found this an excelent alternative.

Yes, I am also quite happy with Kindle on my iPad - have already purchased several books there. I really don't need iBooks at all anymore, but am keeping it on in case I want to reread Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky or Dead Souls by Gogol. But, if you're not into 19th-century classsics, I'd say get rid of it and get Kindle!

apple really *****. after all the mania, and i received my apple iphone thru my job. The phone in itself is not that intuitive, example cannot initiate a phone call to a person who send SMS.

The itunes store is just a complete fiasco. BAD APPLE.

In stead of iBooks, try the other ereader apps like Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Googelbooks.

That's a Good Advice but the problem I have now is that Kindle is only available in the US App Store. Was it always like that? And any ideas on a good alternative?

I think you are confusing two things here: ibooks is an app supplied by Apple, and it only shows the ancient classics, for free. But the Kindle app is supplied by Amazon, and it really has a wide range of books that you pay for. So I would advise you to look under Amazon, not Apple.

Would like to add that I live in the Netherlands but I can get Kindle here, I think it is available everywhere. However, I read mainly English, and of course I don't know if the Kindle app is available in other countries and in other languages; that may not yet be the case.

My Problem is that I live in Indonesia and just bought the iPad to easily obtain and read Books a couple of weeks ago.

First the iBook Store does not contain Paid Books and then I found out that Kindle and Nook are not available in the Indonesian App Store. So all the three major paid content eReader apps are unavailable for me.

This is frustating, should I create a new Apple ID with a Fake Address? But would I be able to copy the content to my iPad as I am logged in as another user?

That's really strange - I thought you would be able to get any app anywhere in the world. On the other hand, Apple does seem to have different agreements with different countries. Still, I would think that since Kindle is supplied by Amazon and not by Apple, there shouldn't be any problem.... Did you try the Amazon US site?

I did actually, got an itunes link to the Kindle App. Sadly it is not available in the Indonesia App Store. Looks like Europe and US Stores have no problems.

mariettafromgroningen wrote:

Did you try the Amazon US site?

The only place you can ever download an app from is the Apple store, not Amazon or someplace else, regardless of who makes the app.

Is Googlebooks an option?

It's actually frustrating. When we buy iPad or any other apple device, we expect that all stuffs would be entertained. Why the **** does apple advertise that one can be entertained with lots of musics and iBooks? Is it only for games? Moreover some videos which need adobe flash player can't be seen. Now I advise my friends to by a laptop or notebook instead of iPad especially for Indians, because at same price they can get more stuff with laptop or notebook.