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Sweet! Now You Can Give iBookstore Gifts

by Miral Sattar •  December 20, 2013  •   Follow miralsattar

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Sweet! Here’s a great gift for your book lover friends who own an iPad or iPhone. Apple iBookstore now let’s you give  individual books as gifts

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Previously, you had to buy an iTunes gift card, but now you can gift individual books.

To gift a book:

1) Browse to the book in the iTunes store

2) Select the book thumbnail

3) Click on the arrow next to the ‘Buy Book’ button

4) You will then see the option for ‘Gift Book’

The only drawback is that you can only gift books to folks in the same country as you. More details on the MacWorld blog. 

About Miral Sattar

Lover of books. CEO & founder of Bibliocrunch. Love storytelling in all its forms. Formerly TIME. I'm a new media entrepreneur who has worked in the media industry for 11 years. My mission is simple – to innovate the publishing industry with technology. My company has been featured in BBC World News, Money Magazine, Bloomberg, Consumer Reports, Forbes, WSJ, MediaBistro, PBS, Columbia Journalism Review, The Next Web, Publishers Weekly, and a bunch of other places. Bibliocrunch was also selected as The Next Big Thing in media by the Paley Center. I also used to run a popular South Asian culture blog called Divanee. Before I ran my own company and became a mom, I used to be on the board for several literacy organizations, and wrote a LOT more. Hopefully, when things are calmer I can go back to that! :)