The numbers on iBooks are cooked. When you download the free app, there is a free download available, Winnie the Pooh, prominently featured. This means they c

The numbers on iBooks are cooked. When you download the free app, there is a free download available, Winnie the Pooh, prominently featured. This means they can count 1 download of a book for every free download of iBooks. The fact that there are probably only 500,000 books sold so far does not bode well for the iBooks store. In my anecdotal experience, the selection is very limited in the iBooks store. I found much wider selection using Kindle, and the Kindle app is pretty nice. The only drawback to using the Kindle app is that it uses Safari to do all of your purchasing, but you're still able to purchase a book in Safari and download it immediately in the Kindle App. Books that cost $9.99 in the iBooks store were $5.99-7.99 on Kindle. For now, I'm a happy Kindle customer, since all of my library transferred over to my iPad, but if Apple does manage to increase the selection and lower the prices, I might consider shopping there.