{"id":4523,"date":"2010-01-28T09:38:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2010-01-28T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:40:19","slug":"more-about-the-apple-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4523","title":{"rendered":"iBooks on the Apple iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It stands to reason that we&#8217;ll all be inundated with stories and articles about the <strong>Apple iPad<\/strong>. As the dust settles, we&#8217;re starting to get to the specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Ok. We&#8217;ve all heard that it&#8217;s just a big iPhone, but it does have eBook reading capability and that&#8217;s what we were waiting to hear. <strong>PCWorld <\/strong>goes into more detail <strong><a title=\"PCWorld and iBook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/187897\/ipad_to_feature_apples_ibooks_ereader_app.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong> about the\u00c2\u00a0eBook reading APP\u00c2\u00a0called <strong>iBook<\/strong>. It looks like they&#8217;re going to offer titles between<strong>\u00c2\u00a0$8<\/strong> and<strong> $15<\/strong> from five major publishers:\u00c2\u00a0Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon &amp; Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette Book Group. (More about the Apple iBook pricing story <strong><a title=\"MediaMemo and eBook Pricing at Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20100127\/the-music-industrys-cautionary-itunes-tale-resonates-with-publishers-and-apple\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong> at <strong>MediaMemo<\/strong>. Did Apple learn from its own digital music lesson?)<\/p>\n<p>The iPad also reads <strong>EPUB<\/strong> format, so that tells us that despite the (still-too) high eBook prices they haven&#8217;t designed themselves into a corner with proprietary formats.\u00c2\u00a0More as the story unfolds, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It stands to reason that we&#8217;ll all be inundated with stories and articles about the Apple iPad. As the dust settles, we&#8217;re starting to get to the specifics. Ok. We&#8217;ve all heard that it&#8217;s just a big iPhone, but it does have eBook reading capability and that&#8217;s what we were waiting to hear. PCWorld goes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4523\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}