Google Play Books - Books & Comics to give it its full title is Google’s book reading app. Price: Free | By: Google | Size: 59MB | iOS: 8.0 Most have online stores with millions of ebooks available. These are all free ebook readers and they all provide at least some free ebooks. Wherever you go and whatever device you use, alternative ebook readers enable you to read your books. You can access your ebook library on the iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, sometimes on dedicated ebook reader devices like the Kindle and Kobo, on the computer and so on. This does not affect other ebook readers and many are cross platform. There never was and probably never will be. The iBooks books you buy have protection systems to prevent them from being read elsewhere.
If you buy iBooks, you would lose them all because iBooks is not available on any other platform. Imagine building up a large library of purchased books and you decide to switch to an Android phone for a change. If you purchase a book from the store in the app, it can only be read in iBooks on the iPhone or iPad. The main problem with iBooks on the iPhone and iPad is that it is a closed system. Apple bundles an ebook reader with the iPhone and iPad and it is good, but it also has limitations and there are alternative apps for reading ebooks that offer a variety of benefits.