Tag Archive | "e-books"
Apple’s January event to include major iBooks and digital textbook announcements
New details about Apple’s rumored media event are emerging and it looks like Cupertino is about to make some huge announcements regarding digital textbooks. Clayton Morris of Fox News writes that the event will have two main topics of conversation – iTunes University and Apple in education. I learned of the event back in September [...]
Continue reading...Apple puts the kibosh on content purchased outside of iTunes
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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The New York Times is reporting that Apple has informed application developers like Sony that they will no longer be able to sell content like e-books within their apps as a means to circumvent the iTunes App Store. Apple rejected Sony’s iPhone application, which would have let people buy and read e-books bought from the [...]
Continue reading...Disney sells over 1 million iOS book apps
Monday, January 10, 2011
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With titles like Toy Story 2 Read-Along and Princess Dress-Up, Disney’s selection of 9 iOS book apps have been downloaded over 1 million times thus far. Impressively, each of Disney’s 9 iOS book apps have at some point or another made an appearance in the top 10 list of paid book apps. Check out the [...]
Continue reading...Amazon expected to sell 8 million Kindles this year
Thursday, December 23, 2010
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Bloomberg reports that Amazon may very well sell as many as 8 million Kindles this year, an exceptional figures that easily dwarfs analyst estimates by upwards of 60%. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg estimated, on average, that the company would sell 5 million Kindles in 2010. Last year, Amazon sold about 2.4 million Kindles, said one [...]
Continue reading...Apple updates iBooks app with highlights, notes, and PDF functionality
Monday, June 7, 2010
Steve Jobs’ keynote is underway, and he kicked things off with a bit of info about the iPad. Some of the more worthwhile tidbits are that there are now over 8.5 million native iPad apps in the App Store, and they’ve been downloaded over 35 million times to date. “That’s about 17 apps per iPad,” [...]
Continue reading...Google plans to jump into the e-book market
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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Well surprise, surprise. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has plans to begin selling ebooks sometime in late June early July. This new initiative would mark yet another field where Apple and Google are competitors given Apple’s recent foray with digital books via its iBooks app for the iPad, a feature which, according [...]
Continue reading...Apple sells over 1 million iPads in 28 days
Monday, May 3, 2010
In the first month since going on sale, Apple confirmed today that it had already sold 1 million units of the iPad. In a press release issued earlier this morning, Apple announced that it took them just 28 days to hit the 1 million mark, while pointing out that iPad users have already downloaded over [...]
Continue reading...Apple sells over 300,000 iPads on Saturday alone
Monday, April 5, 2010
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Apple announced today that as of Midnight on Saturday April 3rd, they had sold over 300,000 iPads – a figure that includes pre-orders as well. “It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world—it’s going to be a game changer,” Steve Jobs said in a press release, “iPad users, on average, downloaded more [...]
Continue reading...Engadget reviews the iPad, fawns over iBooks
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Engadget’s review of the iPad – as usual, it’s detailed, informative, and doesn’t pull any punches. Well done Mr. Topolsky. Especially impressive were their thoughts on Apple’s iBooks app: To say Apple is about to put a major dent in Kindleworld is an understatement. The iBooks app is one of the most beautiful and thoughtful [...]
Continue reading...CNN discusses the iPad and Apple’s new e-book pricing structure
Friday, March 26, 2010
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CNN discusses the iPad and mentions that Apple recently signed up 2 new publishers for its iBook Store – Perseus (the largest independent publishing house) and Workman. All told, Apple has now inked deals with 5 of the 6 biggest publishers, Random House being the notable exception.
Continue reading...Random House wary of inking iPad deal with Apple
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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With only a few days before the iPad hits store shelves, Random House, the worlds largest book publisher in terms of sales, has yet to ink a deal with Apple to make its content available on the iPad. While other big name publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Harper-Collins, and Penguin are all on board [...]
Continue reading...Project Gutenberg’s 30,000+ library of e-book titles will be available for the iPad
Monday, March 22, 2010
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Project Gutenberg is an initiative to digitize classic books with the intention of encouraging the “creation and distribution of eBooks.” As it stands now, Project Gutenberg is home to over 30,000 texts, many of which are in the public domain, that are available as free drm-free downloads. And the good news is that all 30,000+ [...]
Continue reading...Stills from iPad ad confirm $12.99-$14.99 price point for e-books
Monday, March 8, 2010
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If you’ve been following iPad related stories over the past few weeks, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the escalating battle between Amazon and Apple over e-book pricing. With a new player in town (Apple), publishers have been afforded more negotiating power and have demanded, and received, more flexibility with e-book titles housed on Amazon. While most [...]
Continue reading...Penguin Books looking to tackle the iPad with full force [Video]
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Penguin Books CEO Jon Makinson recently demoed some upcoming titles for the iPad they have cookin’ in the kitchen. From interactive kids books to medical reference titles, Penguin is really getting behind the iPad and they feel that ebooks will represent 10% of their total sales in 2011. The Ipad represents the first real opportunity to [...]
Continue reading...The mathematics of e-book publishing
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
A lot of people think that the proliferation of devices like the Kindle and the impending iPad will be an unmitigated boon for book publishers. After all, the argument goes, digital copies of books don’t incur some of the more standard costs of publishing, such as printing and shipping. But the e-book publishing is more nuanced [...]
Continue reading...As Steve Jobs stood on stage unveiling the iPad, Amazon was frantically calling publishers
Saturday, February 27, 2010
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As Steve Jobs still stood on stage unveiling the iPad on January 27th, Amazon executives frantically began calling a slew of publishers looking to glean as much information as possible about the type of content deals they struck with Apple. According to a recent report in the New York Times, Amazon recently began trying to [...]
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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