This article was published on June 7, 2010

Steve Jobs on iPad iBooks: 5 Million eBooks Downloaded in 65 Days, Now Reads PDFs


Steve Jobs on iPad iBooks: 5 Million eBooks Downloaded in 65 Days, Now Reads PDFs

One of the first announcements that Steve Jobs made during his WWDC keynote today was about the iBooks on the iPad.

Jobs announced that 5 million books had been downloaded to the over 2 million iPads sold (so 2.5 books or so per iPad) and that 22% of eBooks sales now run through iBooks according to the publishers working with Apple (5 of the 6 major publishers).

iBooks can also now read PDFs. Said Jobs, “We put a little selector right at the top so you can select between books and PDFs. Whole new bookshelf for just PDFs.”

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