Apple’s iPad will arrive in stores April 3, 2010 and the iBookstore will go live. To prepare you for that we’ve got a link to the Chicago Sun-Times’ Andy Ihnatko’s piece “iBooks is worth the price alone for iPad as ebook reader.” A very informative Good Friday article, in it Ihnatko makes some excellent comparisons …
Category: iPad
Apr 01
The Peril for Publishers
We found an excellent article at The Economist describing the perilous questions that digital publishing poses for the traditional publishing world. It’s a very detailed discussion of the difficulties awaiting traditional publishers as they are forced by market and technological advances to adapt their business models to the eBook Revolution. The problem these corporate giants face is …
Mar 31
Smashwords taking a bite of Apple?
There’s a rumor going around out there that Smashwords has inked a deal with Apple to distribute its growing list of titles by independent authors and publishers at the iBookStore. Now we’ve got ars technica talking about a letter going out to participating authors to confirm it. Read about the letter here. We’ve talked about Smashwords before …
Mar 27
More on Kobo’s $150 eBook Reader
This time Gadget Lab picks up the story and puts Kobo’s $150 E Ink eBook Reader on a collision course with Amazon’s Kindle. I mentioned the device the other day and called it a game changer for the eBook Revolution, but I have to agree with Gadget Lab. This $150 machine is going to be …
Mar 26
Is it time to re-invent the eBook?
Thank you Jorgen for pointing us to a post by R. David Lankes at the School Library Journal titled: “Ereaders, the iPad—Is That All There Is?” Seems Lankes was under-impressed by the recent launch of iPad. (And it sounds like he was none-too excited by the eBook Reading Devices that were already on the market.) None …
Mar 24
The Same Old Song and Dance at Amazon–er, from APPLE this time!
Remember when almost a year ago Amazon started fooling around with pricing, allowing publishers to raise their prices until there was a massive consumer backlash? (The $9.99 Boycott by Kindle owners, where they refused to buy eBook titles that were priced over $9.99) Anyway, get ready for the Apple iPad iBook Boycott. Having already signed on six …
Mar 23
iPad Web Addresses for Sale…
Some forward-thinking entrepreneurs (aka good-guessers) are hoping to make millions from the sale of iPad web names. CNNMoney has the story here. To get you started, one chap listed the web addresses: ipaddownload.com, ipaddownloads.com and ipaddownloads.net at eBay for a cool million each. In case anyone was wondering why the iPad’s a little pricey.
Mar 22
Apple iPad More than Hype?
Joe Wilcox at BetaNews is stirring the pot in his post: “Be smart, don’t buy into the iPad hype.” Any time you want to stir the pot, say something negative about new Apple products. You’ll always get burned by hardcore fans and early adopters. I don’t think this article is an attack on the iPad–just …
Mar 21
A few words on the future of eBooks…
Thanks Jorgen for a link to a post by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet entitled “The iPad will kill ebooks as we know them.” Rather a gloomy piece, but it makes some good points while ignoring the vast market of readers who just want to read on a device. They’re happy with the eBook’s (book’s) special …
Mar 20
More Amazon eBook Action…
In an effort to hang onto its 90 percent share of the American e-book market, Amazon is starting to talk tough with publishers in the weeks leading up to the iPad’s arrival. If you’ll remember, Amazon already got into a dustup with publishers that resulted in the eBook retailer removing the ‘buy’ buttons from resistant …
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