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Kindle app for iPad now live

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The Kindle app for iPad has hit the app store. Kindle for iPad is a universal app -- the same app works on the iPhone or iPad. Almost two weeks ago, Amazon first previewed the Kindle iPad app. The app has...

iBooks app now available in App Store

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Apple has released the iBooks app into the App Store. The iBooks app will only run on the iPad and includes a complimentary copy of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. Some of the features of the app allows...

Amazon caves to book publishers

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Amazon has submitted to pressure from the major book publishers ahead of the iPad's Saturday launch. HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster will now, like Macmillan, be allowed to use an agency model that gives them control over their book's prices. "Our digital...

First Look: Kobo for iPad

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Here's yet another iPad app that caught my eye via a video preview. KoboBooks takes advantage of iPad-style design to offer a simple, elegant eBook reader. I love how all of the attention to detail (from bookmarks and page views, to brightness, font, and background settings)...

Project Gutenberg ebooks will be included in the iBookstore for free

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Two days ago we told you that Project Gutenberg's ebooks should be compatible with the iPad, and we even showed you some ways to get around any possible restrictions Apple could have imposed on the vast catalog of free ebooks. Well, it...

Project Gutenberg books will work on the iPad

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If you don't already know about Project Gutenberg, you should. The site has over 30,000 free ebooks, most of them classics whose copyrights have lapsed. The site includes big-name titles from big-name authors, representing everyone from Dante Alighieri to H.G. Wells....

Largest independent book publisher signs with Apple

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Despite threats from Amazon that it will stop selling the independent publisher's books if they sign on with Apple's iBookstore, Perseus Books Group, the largest independent publisher, has signed a deal with Apple. David Steinberger, chief executive of...

Gatekeeping the iPad: Apple Being Shrewd About What Will Appear at Launch

How do you control what will and won’t appear on your brand new platform on launch day if you’re Apple, without outright banning apps in a way that might invite accusations of attempting to start a monopoly? If it’s the e-book market you’re after, apparently all [...]

eBooks outnumber games in the App Store

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The number of eBooks in the App Store has surpassed the number of games for the first time, and the spread is widening. Mobclix, a mobile device advertising...

Dear John Makinson and Penguin, please don’t “reinvent” books

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"Reading literature makes you a more well-rounded individual." That's what an author told me once. Notice he didn't say "watching literature."

paidContent:UK has an article on a presentation Penguin Books' CEO John Makinson gave here in London on Tuesday. Makinson presented ideas...

Macmillan trying to sell readers ‘hardcover’ ebooks

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John Siracusa drew my attention to an article by Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price, in which he says that the company actually plans to...

Leaked file might be the first promo list of iPad books

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The authors include Stephen King, Timothy Ferris, Malcolm Gladwell, Dubner & Leavitt, Kennedy, Agassi, Palin and Beck. There's bestselling fiction (The Lovely Bones),...