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08-01-2016, 02:23 AM
Apple's new iBooks Instagram account has a birthday message for J.K. Rowling
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We just got more proof that Instagram is an essential social media tool, even for the world's richest tech company, as Apple's iBooks finally launched its account (https://www.instagram.com/ibooks/) on the service on Saturday.*
SEE ALSO: Instagram is making it easier to hide comments (http://mashable.com/2016/07/29/instagram-comment-filter/)
Starting with an animation of the cover of Emma Cline's widely praised debut **vel The Girls, the post includes a blurb about the book's "terrifying events that forever change protagonist Evie Boyd, a disaffected teenager drawn into a Mason Family-like cult."*
That's pretty much how the account is used over the course of 15 posts, with personal message-style promotions of books available on iBooks (http://mashable.com/category/ibooks/) mixed with still images, **tes and animations.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/31/ibooks-instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about J. K. Rowling (http://mashable.com/category/j.-k.-rowling/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Instagram (http://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ibooks (http://mashable.com/category/ibooks/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/iYgnclx6PFE
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We just got more proof that Instagram is an essential social media tool, even for the world's richest tech company, as Apple's iBooks finally launched its account (https://www.instagram.com/ibooks/) on the service on Saturday.*
SEE ALSO: Instagram is making it easier to hide comments (http://mashable.com/2016/07/29/instagram-comment-filter/)
Starting with an animation of the cover of Emma Cline's widely praised debut **vel The Girls, the post includes a blurb about the book's "terrifying events that forever change protagonist Evie Boyd, a disaffected teenager drawn into a Mason Family-like cult."*
That's pretty much how the account is used over the course of 15 posts, with personal message-style promotions of books available on iBooks (http://mashable.com/category/ibooks/) mixed with still images, **tes and animations.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/31/ibooks-instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about J. K. Rowling (http://mashable.com/category/j.-k.-rowling/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Instagram (http://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ibooks (http://mashable.com/category/ibooks/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/iYgnclx6PFE