I agree that the eBook stores leave a lot to be desired as far as browsing them goes. I may be in the minority here, but I tend to browse for books using a computer as it is so much easier than doing so on my Kindle or my iPad because I am so much faster with a physical keyboard than with touchscreen keyboards. I don't buy from the iBookstore because of the DRM issue, but with Amazon you can tell it to deliver to which ever device you want it to. Plus it is easy to access the Amazon Archive to download purchased material. I guess with the iBookstore if I found a book I liked using my computer I would go into iTunes on the iPad and type in the first part of the title to quickly locate it.

I love my iPad though I'm not at all a fan of the Apple company. But iTunes is not well designed for browsing or searching for apps or books or anything. I do wish they would improve the browsing capabilities. I suspect they did that on purpose, much like grocery stores periodically rearranging their aisles to force you to search for what you need in the hope that you will buy things that were not on your list!