{"id":19475,"date":"2010-05-20T21:28:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=19475"},"modified":"2010-05-20T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:35:06","slug":"international-ibookstores-start-to-go-live-slowly-filling-up-with-ibooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/international-ibookstores-start-to-go-live-slowly-filling-up-with-ibooks\/","title":{"rendered":"International iBookstores Start to Go LIVE. Slowly Filling Up With iBooks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After international versions of the on-device App Store <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/apple-flicks-switch-on-international-ipad-app-stores-now-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">started to go live on iPad&#8217;s around the world<\/a> this morning, Italian blog @iPadevice is now reporting that Apple is pushing updates to its international iBookstores as we speak. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>iTunes Italia has started to add books to its iBookstore. The iBookstore, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipadevice.com\/libook-store-comincia-a-popolarsi-di-libri-7610.html\" target=\"_blank\">now online is slowly filling up<\/a> with popular iBooks titles. <\/p>\n<p>As noted by the site, the first titles which seem to be appearing on the store are mainly FREE e-books, available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/foto-1_ipadevice-580x435.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The iBookstore was recently confirmed as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/confirmed-international-ibookstores-launching-may-28th\/\" target=\"_blank\">launching intentionally on May 28th<\/a>, to coincide with Apple&#8217;s international launch in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. However, its so far unclear if these changes have propagated to other stores internationally.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Apple, as with the iPad&#8217;s on-device App Store, is today taking the international iBookstores online, in preparation for next weeks launch and to ensure everything goes as smoothly as possible on launch day.<\/p>\n<p>[via @iPadevice]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After international versions of the on-device App Stores <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/2010\/05\/20\/apple-flicks-switch-on-international-ipad-app-stores-now-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">started to go live on iPad&#8217;s around the world<\/a> this morning, Italian blog @iPadevice is now reporting that Apple is pushing updates to its international iBookstores as we speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,2122,2144,2028],"tags":[3500,4,1472,2776,871,3507,2778,2777,1704,1036],"class_list":["post-19475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-books-app-store","category-breaking-blog","category-ipad","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-breaking","tag-ibookstore","tag-international","tag-ipad","tag-italian","tag-launched","tag-live","tag-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19475"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19484,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions\/19484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}