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Comic creator’s iBooks Author experiment nets 10,000 downloads in 3 days

By Jan. 26, 2012, 12:59pm PT 2 Comments

Apple’s iBooks Author impressed Diesel Sweeties creator and artist R Stevens so much that he created an e-book with it during the course of a weekend and distributed it free to readers. On Thursday, Stevens shared some interesting details about that experiment. Read More »

Vook: iBooks Author has limited appeal for writers, readers

By Jan. 19, 2012, 2:53pm PT 9 Comments

Following Apple’s unveiling of e-book publishing platform iBooks Author Thursday, I reached out to Vook, the startup founded in 2009 by Brad Inman that provides a top-to-bottom publishing experience using a Software-as-a-Service model. Vook sees both flattery and opportunity in Apple’s e-book software. Read More »

 
 

Apple to help “reinvent the curriculum” with new iTunes U

By Jan. 19, 2012, 7:49am PT 5 Comments

Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue announced a revamp of iTunes U on Thursday, designed to help teachers create full online courses instead of just creating videos or lectures. The new iTunes U will have its own app, which is similar to iBooks. Read More »

Apple unveils iBooks Author, a Mac app for easy interactive e-book authoring

By Jan. 19, 2012, 7:24am PT 5 Comments

Apple’s Roger Rosner, Apple VP of productivity software, showed off Apple’s new iBooks Author on Thursday at Apple’s special media event in NYC. iBooks author is a Mac app that provides tools to help anyone publish interactive digital books, complete with rich media features. Read More »

Apple education event live blog

By Jan. 19, 2012, 6:56am PT 1 Comment

We’re here at Apple’s education event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The company is expected to launch a set of tools that allow self-publishing of textbooks and possible partnering with textbook makers to push a digital learning initiative. The event and our live… Read More »

Apple event preview: Tools to bolster in-school iPad use

By Jan. 18, 2012, 6:00am PT 2 Comments

Apple’s plans for its Thursday media event have been the subject of considerable speculation. Now a new report released Wednesday adds a little more weight to recent suggestions that the focus will be on tools that help produce e-books and other educational materials on the iPad.… Read More »

Amazon launches new touch-friendly Kindle Store for iPad

By Jan. 10, 2012, 9:40am PT 5 Comments

Amazon has now broken out its touch-friendly shopping experience for the iPad from its Kindle Cloud Reader product, in an effort to make it easier for everyone to buy books from the Kindle Store, and quickly read those purchases in Amazon’s native iPad Kindle app. Read More »

Steve Jobs biography tops Amazon’s Best Sellers list for 2011

By Dec. 6, 2011, 7:07am PT 5 Comments

The Walter Isaacson biography of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has risen to the top of Amazon’s list of best-selling books for 2011, not even two months following its release in October. The Jobs biography had already reached the No. 2 spot in November. Read More »

Why new Kindles will supplement, not replace, my iPad

By Sep. 28, 2011, 12:28pm PT 3 Comments

As much as I’m tied into Apple’s ecosystem for hardware and apps, my e-book loyalty lies with Amazon. Luckily, Amazon’s design choices and pricing strategies, as revealed Wednesday with its latest Kindle line, mean I can have my cake and eat it, too. Read More »

Kindle, Nook now offering periodicals on iOS; where will you buy?

By Jul. 26, 2011, 7:15am PT 3 Comments

Kindle now supports viewing of over 100 of its newspaper and magazine titles, and Nook for iPad will soon offer access to over 175 digital periodicals. This adds yet another vector through which iOS users can access magazine and newspaper content. So which will you use? Read More »

Google Books says goodbye to Apple App Store

By Jul. 25, 2011, 6:46am PT 21 Comments

Apple’s new rule preventing e-book apps from linking to outside storefronts appears to be in effect. Developers are pushing out updates to their apps that bring them in-line, and Google Books is just gone. But what will Amazon do, and how will it affect iOS? Read More »

Our Choice: The First in a Wave of Truly Enhanced E-Books?

By Apr. 28, 2011, 9:03am PT 5 Comments

Our Choice, a new app penned by Al Gore and developed by Push Pop Press went live in the App Store Wednesday, bringing a unique take on the e-book experience to iOS. If this is what’s in store for the future of e-books, count me in. Read More »

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iPad Fueling Enhanced E-Book Revolution
By Jul. 21, 2010, 4:59pm PT 11 Comments

The number of “enhanced e-books” is currently few and far between, but this is quickly changing, as is our perception of the book itself. The world of publishing can expect some interesting times as authors look to new ways of expressing themselves. Read More »

Showdown: 5 iPad Reading Apps
By Jun. 29, 2010, 2:00pm PT 15 Comments

Now that all the commercial e-book distributors have made their iPad apps available, it’s time for an overview of how each app performs, along with their pluses and minuses. So, here’s how I found each app to hold up. Read More »

Zinio’s iPad Magazines Suggest Disappointing Future
By Apr. 21, 2010, 9:08am PT 62 Comments

Just like Apple with its iBookstore, Zinio has established relationships with an impressive array of publications. As such, you can expect to find enhanced editions of magazines Cosmopolitan, T3 and Rolling Stone among others. However, unlike Apple’s iBookstore, Zinio certainly doesn’t live up to the hype. Read More »

iBookstore Pricing Leaked: Cheaper Than Expected
By Mar. 26, 2010, 8:39am PT 1 Comment

According to at least one source, pricing of e-books sold through Apple’s iBookstore will not be as expensive we were initially led to believe. Many sources put the original price of bestsellers between $12 and $14, as compared to the $9.99 sweet spot offered by Amazon. Read More »

Apple’s e-Book Pricing May Start High, But Won’t Necessarily Stay That Way
By Feb. 18, 2010, 9:30am PT 10 Comments

One of the main reasons I like buying e-books for my Kindle instead of physical ones is the price advantage. Yes, portability is nice, and I don’t have to line my apartment walls with bookshelves just to hold everything, but I still do value the book… Read More »

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