It stands to reason that we’ll all be inundated with stories and articles about the Apple iPad. As the dust settles, we’re starting to get to the specifics.
Ok. We’ve all heard that it’s just a big iPhone, but it does have eBook reading capability and that’s what we were waiting to hear. PCWorld goes into more detail here about the eBook reading APP called iBook. It looks like they’re going to offer titles between $8 and $15 from five major publishers: Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette Book Group. (More about the Apple iBook pricing story here at MediaMemo. Did Apple learn from its own digital music lesson?)
The iPad also reads EPUB format, so that tells us that despite the (still-too) high eBook prices they haven’t designed themselves into a corner with proprietary formats. More as the story unfolds, yah?
