With iPad UK launch day now less than a week away, Apple is still beavering away at the iPad UK app store with the first iBooks hitting the virtual shelves. We’ve been wandering through the virtual stacks to take a peak at the first UK iBooks…
Rather starting than new books, Apple is beginning to fill the iBooks store with the free Project Gutenberg titles. We’re promised 30,000 classic texts to choose from when its finished. We’ve already spotted virtual tomes by Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.
Just like in the iPhone apps and iPad apps sections of the store, the iBook store will offer up some featured titles. Currently it’s showing Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War (which Steve Jobs should read in the wake of Google TV) and recommending Jules Verne.
Surf the iBooks store now on with an iPad and you’ll also find a selection of categories to choose from. Many of them including Arts & Entertainment are still empty at this point. We also noticed that the broken link to the iBooks app which had been lingering in iTunes has now disappeared.
By this time next week, the shelves should be brimming with books as Apple has promised that the iBooks app will available to download on iPad UK launch day.
If you’ve already grabbed your an iPad, surf over the store yourself and let us know if you spot anything. If not, take a look at our gallery above and tell us what titles you’re most hoping to see headed for the iBooks store.
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