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We've been working on this product for a while and I just didn't want to miss today,

so thank you for having me.

We've got something great to announce today.

Before we get to it, I've got a few updates for you.

The first thing I'd like to talk about is iBooks.

We launched the iBooks store less than a year ago, and one of the milestones we've hit

is that users have downloaded over 100 million books in less than a year.

And today we're announcing that Random House, the largest trade publisher,

is bringing their over 17,000 books to the iBooks store.

They're going to be joining the other five big guys, and we have now over 2,500

publishers distributing through the iBooks store, so we're really thrilled about getting random

house. So that's iBooks, some good stuff happening there.

Now, as you know, iBooks is one of our three stores, right? We have iTunes, the app store,

and iBooks, and they all use the same Apple ID to access them, and you have to have an

account with Apple. Now, recently we just crossed 200 million accounts,

and these are accounts with credit cards and one click purchasing.

Now, Amazon doesn't publish their numbers, but it's very likely this is the most accounts

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