I find that the iBooks Store list of titles is somewhat limited and some popular titles are not available. Can I purchase an ebook from another source, download it and then read it in iBooks? I have the iPad 2' my daughter has a Kindle but when it comes to getting books to read she has it all over me and my iPad.
IPad 2, iOS 4
Most e-books come in a format proprietary to the seller and can only be viewed in the seller's devices or software. Amazon has a Kindle app for the iPad that will allow books in that format to be read, as do Barnes and Nobel and Google for their e-book formats. All three apps are available for free in the iTunes Store. So with an iPad, you have the best of all worlds when it comes to content selection.
Regards.
No, eBooks tend to have digital rights management on them so can usually only be read in a store's own app i.e. iBooks in the iBooks, Amazon's books in the Kindle app, Barnes & Noble in the Nook app. iBooks will open DRM-free ePub books.
As there is a Kindle app for the iPad then you have the advantage over your daughter, because you can read Amazon's, Apple's and Barnes & Noble's ebooks (you just need separate apps).
Not really what you were looking for, but there are collections of public domain books that don't have DRM and can be read in multiple readers - feedbooks.com. Of course, many of those same titles are available for free from iBooks as well.
I have the same problem, except that for some reason, I can only download free books from the Ibookstore. Whenever I look up an author, it tells me it can't find him or her and won't connect to the store. In the meantime, I've downloaded the Kindle app on my Ipad and am using that without a problem.
See your thread with your question:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3297077?answerId=16052534022#16052534022
Can I get books from any other source than iBooks and read them in iBooks?
