Steve Jobs announced some important additions to iBooks at today’s Reality Distortion Conference - Ability to add notes to an iBook. Ability to just tap and add a bookmark. iBooks gets PDF support. Click a PDF you get in your email and it opens up in iBooks. A separate bookshelf for PDFs. iBooks comes to the iPhone. It’s in iOS4 [...]
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Much like Spad at the Kindle forum this is primarily a note of thanks for releasing Stanza. It’s not going to replace the Kindle and probably not even Kindle for iPad – However, it’s a beautiful app with so many options and so much customizability that you have to try it out. Initially the probability of a Stanza [...]
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Well, sort of. It is a survey after all. Change Wave did a survey that asked 153 iPad owners what they most often utilized their iPads for. Each respondent was allowed to choose up to 5 uses. The results were – Surfing the Internet – 83%. Checking Email – 71%. Apps from Apple App Stores (whatever [...]
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After Apple announced that 1.5 million ebooks had been sold in the first month on 1 million iPads you’d think it wasn’t a very significant sales channel for ebooks. However, Publishers beg to differ. Publishers claim iPad is the #2 ebook seller and then sales double, triple Notice the interesting and impossible details revealed (when [...]
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It’s pretty annoying to always have the iPad compared with Kindle and Nook and to hear all sorts of strange things – iPad is the best-selling tablet – selling more than the Kindle tablet. iPad is going to become the #1 eReader. Kindle was the best tablet before the iPad came out. There are two [...]
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