180 Million eBooks Downloaded from Apple’s iBookstore

During yesterday’s Q4 - 2011 earnings call Apple confirmed that its iBookstore is now responsible for some 180 million ebook downloads.

Accessible through the free iBooks app on iOS and through iTunes on Mac OS X and Windows, the iBookstore houses hundreds of thousands of books from major publishers, and includes the New York Times best-seller lists.

With iCloud, you can have the new books you buy on one device automatically downloaded onto the others. Books appear on your bookshelf everywhere you are.

Although the iPad is almost a full-fledged computer, it has often been compared to tablets like Amazon’s Kindle for its e-reading capabilities and library of titles.

Apple also has Newsstand now, an iOS 5 feature that organizes your magazine and newspaper app subscriptions and keeps them up to date for you. The Newsstand interface is very similar to that of iBooks.