Filed under: Portables, Apple, Books
At the roll out of the iPad, our old friend Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal chatted up Steve, and when asking about the pricing of buying books from the iBookstore, Walt was told...Have we seen the end of the $9.99 eBook?
At the roll out of the iPad, our old friend Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal chatted up Steve, and when asking about the pricing of buying books from the iBookstore, Walt was told...iPad’s multifunction appeal and sub-$500 price point a formula for disruptive technology
Filed under: Apple
T minus a little over a month and a half until retail liftoff of the Apple iPad and, similar to the launch of the iPhone 3 years ago, the device is not without its share of criticism -- be it the...
All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple’s iBookstore
Filed under: Odds and ends, Books
Overlooked in much of the hype about the iPad announcement earlier in the week was a comment by Steve Jobs in the Keynote presentation where he mentioned that the iBooks app for iPad would take advantage of the popular...Eleventh hour rumors brew new details on Apple’s tablet
Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Apple
The tension is palpable as we all wait patiently for the start of Apple's event featuring "new stuff," and it seems that a little birdie has stuck his neck out and flown some forbidden images over to the crew at Engadget....
McGraw-Hill outs Apple early: it’s a tablet
Textbook publisher and overall conglomerate McGraw-Hill outed Apple Tuesday on CNBC's Street Signs, confirming what everyone has known for some time now: Apple is releasing a tablet tomorrow (via MacRumors). CEO Terry McGraw explained that the company has been working with Apple for some time now and will offer...
Apple meeting with “nearly all 6″ largest trade publishers
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Rumors
Electronista is reporting today that Apple is in talks with "probably all six" of the largest publishers in preparation for the tablet's release (I think it's safe to officially call it real now). Publishers Marketplace notes that it's all...Amazon hikes Kindle royalties to 70%, with a catch
Amazon dropped a bomb on the publishing world Wednesday morning by announcing a new royalty program that will allow authors to earn 70 percent royalties from each e-book sold, but with a...
Apple in e-book talks, may have Amazon Kindle in sights
Apple's long-rumored tablet could end up being a Kindle competitor after all if Apple follows through with some talks. The company is reportedly in negotiations with HarperCollins Publishers for e-book distribution on the device, according to insiders speaking to the Wall Street Journal. Though the deal isn't solid yet, it's...
Report: Harper Collins, Apple negotiating tablet deal
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, Multimedia, Rumors
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that Apple is in talks with Harper Collins regarding ebooks for the new tablet. They suggest that the publisher will set the prices of the books...Lawsuit over Kindle navigation by visually impaired settled
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and the American Council of the Blind (ACB) have settled a lawsuit against Arizona State University (ASU) over the university's plan to deploy the Kindle...
Rumor Has It: Apple “iSlate” Intended as a Kindle Killer
Yhe Apple tablet isn’t going to be a tablet computer at all, really, according to the Quick PWN blog. If you believe Quick PWN contributor Hans’ inside sources, the Apple iSlate, as he maintains it will indeed be called, is more aimed at taking on the Amazon Kindle and its ilk as an e-reading device.
Presumably,...
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