Bestseller Warren Adler discusses the challenges of converting his 1977 thriller “Trans-Siberian Express” into digital and enhancing it Apple’s iBooks.
UK’s YUDU Sees Future in Apple’s iBooks Platform. Do You?
British multi-platform publisher YUDU is favoring publishing in the robust iBooks platform over stand-alone apps, which entail greater expense and risk.
Apple Unveils 4th Generation iPad and iPad Mini
Apple unveiled today the 7-inch iPad Mini and a new, 4th generation iPad. The Mini will start at $329 and is aimed at book readers. iBooks has also been updated.
Will iBooks Author App Inspire More Authors to Innovate?
Apple has just leapt ahead in the e-book race by offering users the ability to easily embed multimedia elements into their books.
Attorney Suing Apple Over E-books Says Evidence is “Circumstantial”
Steve Berman, the attorney suing Apple over price fixing e-books, says all current evidence is circumstantial.
100 Million Books Downloaded to iPad, Random House Adds 17,000 Titles to iBookstore
By Edward Nawotka If you’re like half of the gadget loving digerati around the globe you’ve probably bene glued to your computer for the last hour watching real-time updates from the launch of iPad 2 — thinner, faster, Applier. One salient piece of news coming from the event was the claim that 100 million books have been downloaded to the …
Tell Us About the Top App and E-book Developers in Your Country
By Edward Nawotka Here at Publishing Perspectives we’ve covered app and e-book developers in some far-off lands — Romania, Indonesia (Equinox is a major iApp developer) and, as featured in today’s lead story, New Zealand. In this digital age, writers, authors and publishers are looking to work with the top talent wherever they can find them. We too are lookout for …
Simba Releases Statistics on iPad E-book Reading
By Hannah Johnson Simba Information estimates that 35% of iPad owners don’t use their iPads for reading e-books. In a press release, Michael Norris, senior trade book analyst at Simba Information said, “The fact that over a million iPad buyers haven’t used the gadget for e-books shows that not all new gadgets equate to a new e-reader.” I don’t think …
Has the iPad Lived Up to Its Hype?
By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story considers the introduction of the iPad to Latin America. Apple’s device has been largely viewed as a revolutionary product, one that has brought tablet computing to the mainstream. We’ve now been living with the iPad for some six months now and discussion of the potential of the device is ongoing. Has it, in your …
Self-Publish with Apple, Call Free Using Google, Discover the Internet of Things
By Hannah Johnson Welcome to our Tech Digest with cool updates from the world of digital innovation. Self-Publish iBooks with Apple iWork Update On Thursday this week, Apple released its iWork update (iWork is basically Apple’s version of Microsoft Office) which includes a new feature in its word-processing program, Pages, that allows users to create ePub files compatible with Apple’s …
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