Recently Apple seems to be on quite the winning streak,with every endeavor they embark on becoming extremely successful. Apple’s latest creation, iBooks Textbooks, is a testament to this claim, as it is already boasting some pretty impressive numbers, just a few short days into its service. So far the tally for the textbook service is around 350,000 total downloads, and is showing no real signs of slowing down.

When iBooks Textbooks was first announced earlier this month, there was certainly no shortage of skepticism surrounding the service. Some said that it was unfamiliar territory for Apple and that it would fail, while others said that it would eventually put authors at a disadvantage by the way the service itself is set up.

iBooks Author Also Unveiled

Fortunately neither of those things turned out to be true, and iBooks, with the help of the textbook creation tool called iBooks author is turning out to be a huge hit for all parties involved in it. As an author, you can put your own books for sale in iBooks, which cuts out the middle man (actually 2), so more money is made if you are an author working for iBooks.

There are other reasons why iBooks is a superior alternative to the traditional method of getting textbooks. For one, the textbooks are sold directly to the customer in a digital format, so there is no chance of running down to the textbook store only to find that they have run out of copies of what you are looking for.  The other immediate advantage not associated with convenience is that they are substantially cheaper, costing about 80% less to publish than in traditional form.

The fact that 90,000 textbook authoring tools for the service have been download shows that we are only getting started with how many textbooks are going to be on iBooks. While this may not completely change the way we buy our textbooks, it may make College Bookstores reconsider their position!