eBooks.com vs Simon & Schuster Books
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eBooks.com
Access your purchased eBooks from eBooks.com on any device. Read offline, sync progress, and customize your reading experience with notes, highlights, and adjustable settings. Organize your library and enjoy accessibility features.
- Offline reading
- Cross-device syncing
- Highlighting and note-taking
- Customizable reading settings
- Library organization
- Accessibility features
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Your personal eBooks.com library, right in your pocket. Pick up any book you've purchased from eBooks.com and start reading, whether you're at home, on the go, or somewhere without internet. Your reading progress syncs across all your devices, so you never lose your place. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Start reading on your phone, continue on your tablet. Your progress, bookmarks, and annotations sync automatically across every device linked to your eBooks.com account. READ OFFLINE, ANYWHERE Download your ebooks to your device and enjoy them without an internet connection. Perfect for flights, commutes, or anywhere life takes you. MAKE EVERY BOOK YOUR OWN Highlight your favorite passages in multiple colors, add notes in the margins, and bookmark the pages that matter most. Your annotations stay with you across all your devices. READ YOUR WAY Customize your reading experience to suit you. Adjust font size, font style, text color, background color, line spacing, margins, and more. Choose between page-flip or scroll mode. ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY Create collections to sort your books your way. Browse by grid or list view, and sort by title, author, or recent activity. ACCESSIBILITY BUILT IN Full VoiceOver support, high-contrast options, and toolbar labels help make reading accessible to everyone. GETTING STARTED Download the app for free, sign in with your eBooks.com account, and your library is ready to read. Don't have an account yet? Create one at eBooks.com and start building your library today.
Simon & Schuster Books
Access your purchased ebooks and audiobooks from simonandschuster.com. Enjoy offline reading and listening with features like bookmarking, customizable text, and a sleep timer. Seamlessly continue your reading across devices.
- Offline access to purchased content
- Audiobook player with sleep timer
- Ebook reader with customizable fonts
- Cross-device bookmarking
- Full text search
- Background audiobook playback
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An ebook and audiobook app designed exclusively for purchases made at simonandschuster.com. Welcome to the Simon & Schuster books app, powered by Glassboxx. We are delighted to offer you an easy and secure way to enjoy your ebook and audiobook purchases. No password required – you can either use our social sign on with Apple or Google, or simply log in with the email address used to buy the book and enter the verification code sent to your email – and your content awaits in the ‘My books’ area of the app, with formats clearly labelled. With the content in the cloud, downloading requires an initial internet connection. Once downloaded, you can access your books and enjoy them offline. THE EREADER ALLOWS FOR: • Page book-marking, opening the title at the right place when you pick up, even across multiple devices • Font-size and font face changes, as well as dyslexic-friendly font • Page colour themes (white, dark, and sepia) • Full text search • Highlighting • Annotations THE AUDIO-PLAYER WILL: • Auto-save your current position in the book – so that you can pick up right where you left off, even if listening on different devices • Allow for skip forward/backward to recap where relevant • Offer sleep timer option • Play on lock-screen, enabling easy access to playback controls • Play in background whilst browsing other apps • Play immediately, and download in the background (provided internet access is available) • Display accompanying materials for the audiobook • Integrate with Apple Car Play • Connect to Airplay devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simon & Schuster Books at 4.4 against eBooks.com's 1.9. Simon & Schuster Books also leads on ratings volume (116 vs 9). eBooks.com's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simon & Schuster Books holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simon & Schuster Books has 116 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
eBooks.com ships an update every 3 weeks, Simon & Schuster Books every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | eBooks.com | Simon & Schuster Books |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (9 ratings) | 4.4 (116 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 116 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | EBOOKS.COM PTY LIMITED | Glassboxx Limited |
Customer experience
eBooks.com
Simon & Schuster Books
In-app purchases
eBooks.com
No in-app purchases
Simon & Schuster Books
No in-app purchases
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