Apple Books lets you lose yourself in a good story right on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. You’ll find classics, bestsellers, up-and-coming authors, and even audiobooks — ready to download and enjoy.
Features • Explore an incredible selection of books and audiobooks from every category including fiction, nonfiction, mysteries, thrillers, romance, kids’ books, cookbooks, and more. • Browse the Book Store to find the buzziest new releases, curated collections, and exclusive content. • Visit the Audiobooks tab to discover great audiobooks read by your favorite authors and celebrities. • Preview books while you browse, and download free samples — sometimes before they’re available anywhere else. • Check out our Top Charts to see what’s popular with other readers. • Return to the books you’re currently reading and get great recommendations in the Reading Now tab. • Add books and audiobooks you’d like to read next to the new Want to Read collection. • Use Auto-Night mode to browse the Book Store or read in bed without waking anyone up. • Organize your library the way you want with flexible collections — even see a timeline of books you’ve finished or books that are downloaded on your device.
Great ways to read • Choose from a selection of attractive fonts and four easy-to-read page colors. • Add bookmarks and notes, and highlight your favorite passages. • Find a word, character, or phrase anywhere in your book with built-in search. • Turn on Auto-Night Theme to make reading more comfortable on your eyes. • Adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment. • Move continuously through books instead of flipping pages by enabling Scroll view. • Hear the words on a page spoken when using Books with the accessibility features in iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. • Print PDF documents and notes you've written in Books using AirPrint.
iCloud features • Access any of the books you purchase from Apple Books on all of your devices. • Share your book and audiobook purchases with family members using Family Sharing. • Organize your books and PDFs into personal collections that’ll appear on all your devices. • Access bookmarks, highlights, notes, and your current page on all of your devices.
Requirements • The Book Store is available in many countries. The selection of available books varies by country. • Downloading content from Books or iCloud requires an Apple ID and Internet access. • Adding books and PDFs from outside the Book Store to the Books app requires they be DRM-free. • Some PDF documents may not be compatible with Books.
What’s New
Version History
4.2.1
Bug Fixes and Feature Enhancements
4.2
• Apple Books has been completely redesigned to make discovering and enjoying books and audiobooks simple and fun. • Reading Now is your personal digital nightstand, making it easy to return to books you’re currently reading and get great recommendations for what to read next. • The new Book Store makes it easy to discover your next favorite book — see what’s new and popular from our editors each week or browse recommendations chosen just for you. • Apple Books now has a dedicated audiobooks store, where you can find immersive stories and informative nonfiction books narrated by your favorite authors and actors. • Add books and audiobooks you’d like to read next to the new Want to Read collection. • Auto-Night mode now works everywhere in Apple Books, making it easy to browse the Book Store and read in bed without waking anyone up. • Organize your library just the way you want with more flexible collections — even see a timeline of the books you’ve finished or books that are downloaded on your device.
4.13
Bug fixes, performance improvements, and support for iOS 11
3.5
Bug fixes
3.4
Bug fixes
3.3
Bug fixes
3.2
iBooks has been updated with a beautiful new design for iOS 7.
3.1.3
This version of iBooks improves compatibility with iOS and iCloud.
3.1.2
This version of iBooks resolves an issue where the app may quit unexpectedly while using VoiceOver.
3.1.1
This version of iBooks improves compatibility with iOS and iCloud.
3.1
The iBookstore in Japan now has hundreds of thousands of books available for purchase, including fiction, manga, light novels and more. This version of iBooks also includes a number of improvements for reading Asian language books.
3.0.2
Introducing iBooks 3
• See all your iBookstore purchases in iCloud—on your bookshelf with iOS 6 • Scroll vertically through your books with a flick of a finger using the new Scroll theme • Receive free updates to purchased books — including new chapters, corrections and other improvements • Look up definitions for words in German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese with iOS 6 • Share thoughts about your favorite book with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Messages or Mail
iBooks 3.0.2 resolves an issue where iBooks may unexpectedly quit
3.0.1
Introducing iBooks 3
• See all your iBookstore purchases in iCloud—right on your bookshelf with iOS 6 • Scroll vertically through your books with the flick of a finger using the new Scroll theme • Receive free updates to purchased books—including new chapters, corrections, and other improvements • Look up definitions for words in German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese with iOS 6 • Share quotes or thoughts about your favorite book with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Messages, or Mail
iBooks 3.0.1 resolves an issue where iBooks may unexpectedly quit
3.0
Introducing iBooks 3
• See all your iBookstore purchases in iCloud—right on your bookshelf with iOS 6 • Scroll vertically through your books with the flick of a finger using the new Scroll theme • Receive free updates to purchased books—including new chapters, corrections, and other improvements • Look up definitions for words in German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese with iOS 6 • Share quotes or thoughts about your favorite book with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Messages, or Mail
2.2
iBooks 2.2 adds support for iOS 6.
2.1.1
iBooks 2.1.1 addresses an issue which prompted you to sign-in with your Apple ID at unexpected times. If you experienced this issue, please open iBooks after updating.
This version also contains minor stability and performance improvements.
2.1
• Read books more easily with sharply detailed text on the new iPad's amazing Retina display • See page numbers that correspond to the printed edition of select titles • Search for a page number to jump to a desired page with a single tap • Use your finger as a highlighter when swiping over text • This version also includes a number of important stability and performance improvements
2.0.1
iBooks 2.0.1 addresses an issue where iBooks textbooks may not open.
iBooks 2 introduced iBooks textbooks.
• Experience gorgeous Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPad • iBooks textbooks are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, and videos • Tap to dive into images with interactive captions, rotate 3D objects, swipe through image galleries, watch videos in full screen, and more • Use a finger as a highlighter when swiping over text in a textbook • Take advantage of Study Cards to help you memorize important highlights, notes, and glossary terms • Tap glossary terms to see definitions of key topics and concepts without leaving the page
The iBookstore offers textbooks on Algebra, Biology, Chemistry, Geometry, and Physics from McGraw-Hill and Pearson. These textbooks are currently available to customers in the United States. Textbooks from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are coming soon.
iBooks textbooks are created with iBooks Author — now available as a free download on the Mac App Store.
2.0
Introducing iBooks 2 — now with iBooks textbooks.
• Experience gorgeous Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPad • iBooks textbooks are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, and videos • Tap to dive into images with interactive captions, rotate 3D objects, swipe through image galleries, watch videos in full screen, and more • Use a finger as a highlighter when swiping over text in a textbook • Take advantage of Study Cards to help you memorize important highlights, notes, and glossary terms • Tap glossary terms to see definitions of key topics and concepts without leaving the page
The iBookstore offers textbooks on Algebra, Biology, Chemistry, Geometry, and Physics from McGraw-Hill and Pearson. These textbooks are currently available to customers in the United States. Textbooks from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are coming soon.
iBooks textbooks are created with iBooks Author — now available as a free download on the Mac App Store.
1.5
iBooks 1.5 adds the following new features as well as some stability and performance improvements:
• Nighttime reading theme makes reading books in the dark easier. • Full-screen layout lets you focus on the words without distraction. • iBooks now features an improved selection of fonts, including Athelas, Charter, Iowan, and Seravek. • Beautiful new classic covers for public domain books. • A redesigned annotation palette makes it easier to choose a color for your highlighted text.
1.3.2
iBooks 1.3.2 improves compatibility with iOS 5.
1.3.1
iBooks 1.3.1 includes a number of important stability and performance improvements.
1.3
iBooks 1.3 adds several new features and improvements: • Help your children learn to read with the new read-aloud feature included in select children's books from the iBookstore. The read-aloud feature uses a real narrator to read the book to you, and in some books, it will even highlight the words as you read along. • Enhanced books can now automatically play audio or video included with the book. • Makes iBooks more responsive when opening very long books. • Addresses an issue where some books may display the same page twice.
1.2.2
iBooks 1.2.2 adds a number of important stability and performance improvements, including: • Addresses issues playing video included with enhanced books from the iBookstore. • Resolves a problem where some books open with a different font than expected. • Makes iBooks more responsive when navigating books with many items in their table of contents.
1.2.1
• Includes a number of important stability and performance improvements. • Experience fully illustrated books, from children's picture books to beautifully designed art books, available for download in the iBookstore. • Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections. Swipe left or right to jump between Collections. • Print PDF documents and notes you've written in iBooks using AirPrint. • iBooks now fits more words per page by automatically hyphenating text, available only on iOS 4.2 or later.
