When I hear people going on and on about how they will not buy an iPad because Apple is too controlling so they go buy a Kindle or a Nook or a stupid Sony…
I have to wonder why no one ever shares those good drugs with me.
Kindle will never let you buy books on it at any online place but Amazon and Nook is sure not going to do Amazon any favors and Sony lost already. Here’s a secret folks ALL EBOOK READERS ARE WALLED GARDENS! They are all closed in every sense of the word.
How much more clear do I need to be? And frankly Apple cannot turn off your ability to buy eBooks anywhere you want on the internet and read them because PDF is built into the core of the IOS. Turn off the PDF reader and things will get ugly.
Here let me show you HOW to easily buy any non-drm PDF you want and read it on an iPad using iBooks. Without ever having to use another computer in not one but two easy steps.
Here we are in your All Romance eBook library and you just got a non-DRM ebook see where it says Adobe Acrobat click that. You can translate this in your mind for any of the eBook sellers out there currently they all usually offer a PDF format. If it mentions “secure” then that is a DRM eBook that has to be associated with a DRM App which is not being discussed here.
Suddenly it downloads directly to your iPad (No email to this addy or anything round about like that) and a native IOS PDF reader opens and there is your book which you could read right this minute but notice at the top it says Open in iBooks… click that button and you then download this eBook to iBooks and when you synch it eventually to iTunes it will automatically back it up and you can go into iTunes and classify the eBook correctly using the organizing techniques I showed you all before.
Please note at no time did I buy anything from (Or email anything to) Apple or Amazon or Nook in order to buy an eBook and download and read it using the iPad and All Romance eBooks. In essence I just bought a eBook outside on the internet and downloaded it directly to the iPad and then used Apple’s very own eBook Reader iBooks to read it and keep it safe in a backup and Apple did not get a cent.
The whole argument to me is not about Open versus Closed or Apple versus Android it’s about what “works the easiest” and with “the least amount of bother”. I hate fiddling around just to do basic things like this. So whenever anyone says something about Android remind them they have to use a computer to get the stupid eBook onto Android or backup the eBook from Android unless they are using the Kindle or Nook apps etc etc.
And Kindle, Kobos, Nook, those Android eBook Apps are strictly controlled Walled Gardens worse than anything Apple is doing.
This example should prove Apple is winning hands down in convenience and functionality and pure open eBook purchasing at the moment no matter what those drugged up loud mouths are saying.
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