If you’re looking for some last minute (ish) ideas for holiday gifts, here’s another option worth considering – gift someone an iBook, right from your iPad.
Apple has recently enabled the gifting feature in iBooks on iOS – so it’s easy to do with just a few taps.
Gifting an iBook works just like gifting an app. Once you’ve got a selected iBook open, you tap on the Share button at the top right of the book’s info page – and then tap the Gift button. From there you enter the recipient’s email, any message you want to add, and select whether to send Today or on another date, pick a design for the gift notification, and make your purchase.
A nice way to share the gift of reading on an iPad – hopefully along with some great printed books as well.
Patrick Jordan
Founder and Editor in Chief of iPad Insight. Husband, father to a lovely daughter, Commander of the Armies of the North, dog lover (especially Labs), Austinite, former Londoner, IT consultant, huge sports nut, iPad and mobile tech blogger, mobile apps junkie.
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Hi Patrick
Thanks for your postings.
Do you know if someone in the UK can gift an iBook to my iPad in South Africa, where I live.
Christmas greetings to you
Jim
Hi Jim
Sorry to say I’m pretty sure Apple restricts this so that you can only send a gift to somebody in the same nation as you are in.