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iBooks is an e-book application by Apple Inc. for its iOS and macOS operating systems and devices.

It was announced in conjunction with the iPad on January 27, 2010, and was released for the iPhone and iPod Touch in mid-2010, as part of the iOS 4 update.

Initially, iBooks was not pre-loaded onto iOS devices, but users could install it free of charge from the iTunes App Store.

With the release of iOS 8, it became an integrated app.

On June 10, 2013, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Craig Federighi announced that iBooks would also be provided with OS X Mavericks in fall 2013.

An electronic book (or e-book) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", some e-books exist without a printed equivalent.

The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon.com.

Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store.

The hardware platform, developed by Amazon subsidiary Lab126, began as a single device and now comprises a range of devices, including e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays, Android-based tablets with color LCD screens and Kindle applications on all major computing platforms.

All Kindle devices integrate with Kindle Store content and as of January 2017, the store has over five million e-books available in the US.

Rakuten Kobo Inc. is a Canadian company which sells e-books, e-readers and tablet computers.

It is headquartered in Toronto and is a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten.

The name Kobo is an anagram of book.

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other materials, fastened together to hinge at one side, with text and/or images printed in ink.

A single sheet within a book is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page.

A set of text-filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format for reading on a computer screen, smartphone or e-reader device is known as an electronic book, or e-book.