According to the AppAdvice.com website, the Apple iBooks application includes the Gutenberg project titles. This provides access to over 30,000 titles for free.
Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart was given an operator’s account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the Materials Research Lab at the University of Illinois.
Providing access to these titles will help ease some of the complaints regarding the cost of the Apple iPad.
According to Apple, reading on the iPad will feel just like holding a book.
Reading on iPad is just like reading a book. You hold your iPad like a book. You flip the pages like a book. And you do everything with your hands — just like a book.