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Selling a book with Apple's iBook Author program is now a one-way ticket to Apple being the only place you can sell the book. Maybe selling your book on iBooks isn't such a great deal after all. More&nb... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It was almost definitely not the first time Apple thought about how to revolutionize textbooks and education, but Joe Peters and a couple of Apple interns won its annual iContest, "sort of an American Idol... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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iBooks Author, Apple's new iPad textbook maker, is purported to be so easy to use that [insert stupid animate object here] could go and make one. So we figured we'd try our hand at it. Even if we won't wi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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TechCrunch has an anonymous source in their ear, saying this month's alleged Apple powwow is all about iBooks. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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iBooks gets a substantial update. Unleash Shurikens upon your enemies. Get the best tethering app and let's go sailing. I hear sailors get to curse all the time. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The new iBooks 1.5 is out. It's great. It has a nighttime mode to make reading books in the dark easier on the eyes and full-screen layout with none of the stupidly gimmicky backdrop. Just beautiful typogr... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Apple has today updated iBooks for iPhone and iPad to version 1.3, adding narration features and a performance boost. The new “read-aloud” feature is intended to help children to read, according to Apple’s patch notes, and works with sel... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The iBookstore is now in the iTunes Store on the desktop, MacStories reports. It’s something that most of us would have expected Apple to implement when they first brought us iBooks with iOS 4. At least for me, finding new apps, books and other cont... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Did you know that now you can get books into your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch without having to download them first in your computer and synchronizing? It's very easy. Just follow these steps: More ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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We don’t often write about screensaver or wallpaper apps but we’ve found one that’s capable of seriously pimping out your sexy tablet. Pimp Your Screen offers a variety of different graphics that can be browsed by category or by the most popular images th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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At first it was just an experiment. Blake Crouch, a mystery and suspense novelist, was not lacking for a traditional book publisher. His last few novels were put out by St. Martin’s Press and he has a literary agent dedicated to selling the rights t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Steve Jobs is on-stage, about to drop the next-generation iPad, but before announced that publisher Random House is to make its full catalog of 17,000 ebooks available via Apple’s iBooks store. Bestsellers by Stieg Larsson, John Grisham, Dan Brown a... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Over at Social Apples, a recent 4.2.1 jailbreaker noticed something disconcerting after firing up iBooks on his newly-liberated device. Many of his ebooks didn't work. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Do you remember when everybody was worried what Apple's iBookstore meant for apps like Amazon's Kindle? The undercurrent of dread Apple would kneecap competing ebook stores the way it does iTunes competit... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Remember when asking “what are you reading?” or “read any good books lately?” wasn’t a strange thing? The funny thing is, come to think of it, now that lots of us have eReaders it should be a lot easier to ask that. Heck we s... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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We’ve been hearing chitter-chatter of late that an update to iBooks is coming that will add “folders” or “collections” as well as being able to print and email PDF files. Tonight 9to5Mac says they have documents from Apple gi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Starting early next year, the venerable NY Times is going to include ebooks in its weekly literary sales ratings. Taking their place alongside paperbacks and hardcovers, ebooks will be ranked based on a system that it took the Grey Lady two... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The iPad, and other tablets like it, may actually be a magic and revolutionary device after all. Because at least in this instance, it's given a disabled 7-year old boy the ability to communicate with the... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The iPad is now for sale by Jeff Bezos, putting the device that many view as a threat to Amazon’s Kindle empire on the same digital shelves. This is of course not the only major retailer to sell the iPad apart from Apple, both Best Buy and Target al... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The last time we brought author Joe Konrath to these pages a minor firestorm ignited over exactly how we were parsing his data. He remains a controversial figure in the writing and publishing worlds, but today our topic is far less incendiary. Konrath has... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Oh dear, this is just fanning the fanboy flames. Amazon has produced a commercial that is sure to excite and ignite partisans of both Apple and Amazon. The ad spot focuses on how difficult it is to read your iPad outside, and how easy it is to use a Kind... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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If you thought that everyone was going to let Kindle grab the spotlight and the e-book market uncontested think again, nearly everyone else in the space is making noise trying to stay relevant. Massive bookseller Barnes & Noble will roll out 1000 squ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Amazon has just reached an important milestone: a single author has sold 1,000,000 Kindle books. If there was any doubt as to the long reach of Kindle in the electronic reading wars, this settles it. Stieg Larsson, author of the wonderful trilogy of book... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The iBooks app's been updated to not only include support for audio and video content, but to also offer "substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs." The free update appears to be gradually s... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Highly regarded Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami isn't releasing his next novel on hardcover or paperback. He's releasing it exclusively on iPad, and including all the multimedia goodies that the platform a... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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When Microsoft killed Courier dead, they promised that "it will be evaluated for use in future offerings." One of those innovations appears to have been the iBooks-like "virtual page turn," which Microsof... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I broke my Kindle over a year ago. But I still only buy Kindle ebooks. More » Shopping - E-book - Book - Amazon Kindle - IPhone 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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iPad RSS app Reeder is lush, but Blogshelf has a nicer shopfront, I think. It basically pilfers the look and feel of the iBooks app, so the blogs you subscribe to are presented like books on shelves, minu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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With today's iOS4 release comes iBooks, which is out now for the iPhone and iPod touch. See, you didn't need that iPad after all! [iTunes] More » Apple - iPhone - Handhelds - S... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Near my iPad's iBooks bookshelf sits a new vBookz bookshelf. It looks awfully similar, but it's much better stocked: It has every public domain novel and text-to-speech tech to read them aloud. But a true... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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iBooks just got a decent-sized update, bringing native PDF support (yes!) as well as bookmarks. Your PDFs will get their own seperate bookshelf. The update drops later this month. [Image credit GDGT] M... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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As previously teased, writers can now submit their own books to iBookstore. I can't wait to submit my Jane Austen fan fiction! And neither can Mr. Jean-Luc PicDarcy [iTunes Connect via MacLife] More » IBookstore ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Amazon? Not playing around with publishers when it comes to ebook deals. Penguin's contract ran out on April 1, so Amazon can't sell their ebooks. So Amazon's cut the price of Penguin's actual hardcovers... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I honestly can't tell you what it's like to see and touch and consume news, magazines and comics on the iPad. You just have to experience it. But I can tell you what to read to blow your mind. More&nbs... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Truthfully, I wasn't that interested in the iPad as an eBook reader. Then I used it, and I must say, it's a mostly wonderful experience that's only crippled by a disappointing store. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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You may not have the iPad you preordered, but the official iBooks (eBook reader) app, Apple's answer to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, is available now in the App Store. It's free, of course. [iTunes] More... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I just threw a few ebooks at the iTunes 9.1 update, which brings iBooks support (to get ready for the iPad). Things are not bad, but they're not great. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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With the iPad comes new iTunes. MacRumors hears that 9.1 will have a minor overhaul, organized around books, and smarter, more customizable Genius mixes. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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So this is curious: Just a few days after screens showing iBooks Store ebook prices leaked, revealing a ton of $9.99 bestsellers, a fresh leak shows a bunch are back up to $12.99. Say what? More &... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A ton of the bestselling books in the Kindle Store are free, just like free and cheap apps are the most downloaded in the App Store. So we're not too surprised Apple's baking in a catalog of free books fr... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A leaked peek at bestsellers on Apple's iBooks reveals that the $9.99 ebook is very much alive, suggesting Apple does have the power to cut prices on bestsellers, and books publishers sell for less than t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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You'll notice a major publisher is missing from this slide: Random House, the biggest one in the world, actually. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Uncovered by research firm Busted Loop, via Forbes, among other data like 16,700 iPhone apps have been iPad-certified, is a list of possible ebook categories for the iBooks store: More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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"We use the epub format: It is the most popular open book format in the world." That's how Steve Jobs announced the iPad. And wow, that sounds like all the ebooks you own will just work on anything. Um, n... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Craig Mod, a deadtree book designer, delivers the most considered explication of how new the model of "books" on the iPad actually is. Simply put, it allows 1:1 digital versions of books and their form. Must read: [craigmod via DF] 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This is what digital books from Penguin—one the mega-publishers—will be like on the iPad. Children's books that are games, interactive anatomy books, and an augmented reality intergalactic GPS system. This is the future we've been waiting to ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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More details coming out about Apple's deals with book publishers, and it looks like Apple might have more leverage over prices than expected. The NYT says that "Apple inserted provisions requiring publishers to discount e-book prices on best sellers." Thr... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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As expected, the tricky question of "How we gonna get paid?" has reportedly become a sticking point in Apple's negotiations with newspaper and magazine publishers. Put simply, subscriber information is deeply valuable, and Apple doesn't want to to share i... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A shocking revelation from Warner Bros. earnings call this morning: Since they bumped prices on a bunch of iTunes music, growth has slowed down! Digital track growth dropped from 10 percent in the fall quarter to just 5 percent for this past quarter, whic... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The vision of ebooks Google has presented to publishers: allowing people to print copies, cut and paste portions, and paying publishers 63 percent of the revenue. The vision the publishers presented in return: Go eff yourself. That's right, Google's final... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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