The company’s book-reading software, iBooks, won’t come preinstalled with the iPad. That means users will pick which free software to download and install, and could just as easily choose Amazon’s Kindle app for iPad as Apple’s iBooks.
A person familiar with the matter said that the iBooks app wasn’t preinstalled because it wasn’t finished when iPad manufacturing began. Apple said the software will be available to download Saturday.
WSJ - For Amazon, Arrival of the iPad Opens Door to More e-Book Sales
Wow. Surprised they’d go to market without iBook bundled…
