Category: iPad

iPad competition from Nokia

iSlate.com has a post on Nokia’s plans to bring a Windows 7 touch-screen tablet to the market. With a predicted Autumn release, the plans are for a tablet that will do everything iPad can and cannot do. (Basically all of iPad 2.0’s upgraded functions.) Read the full story here. If Apple’s assertion is correct that they can’t …

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Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle and the Stores that support them…

Remember about a year ago when all we talked about was the Amazon KINDLE? Well, now we’re going on about the iPAD. I guess it’s still exciting so what the heck? (And at least we’re not saying ‘rumored Apple Tablet’ anymore… I was starting to gag on that one.) Here’s a very detailed post at Gizmodo.com.au called …

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Smashwords eBook Titles Arrive on Apple iPad

The good news is in for independent authors and publishers. Smashwords‘ eBook titles have been shipped and can now be purchased through iPad at the Apple iBookstore. Read the release here. This is the latest distribution deal for the independent author and publisher platform that caps off a fantastic run where Smashwords founder Mark Coker …

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Sea Change in Publishing

Thanks Jorgen for a link to an article at the Arizona Republic that outlines some of the changes and challenges facing publishers and authors in the eBook Revolution. An informative read on this Easter Sunday.

More about eBook Readers

Since today marks Apple iPad’s coming out party, I thought I’d post a link to a Canadian Press article that starts to describe both ends of the spectrum in eBook reading, and hints at the crowded and varied future for eBook Reading devices.

Apple iPad Arrives April 3, 2010

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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