Tag Archives: eBooks

Amazon Kindle for iPad hits App Store

Posted 03 April 2010 | By Chris Davies | Categories: archive | No Comments

Amazon have announced that the Kindle for iPad app has made it through Apple’s approval process and is now in the App Store.  The free app automatically syncs with ebooks bought through Amazon’s service, and synchronizes your reading position with other Kindle hardware and software.
To be honest, we’d been a little curious as to whether [...]

Amazon Kindle iPad app revealed

Posted 22 March 2010 | By Chris Davies | Categories: archive | 1 Comment

Information on Amazon’s plans to get their Kindle app onto the iPad have emerged, with the bookseller demonstrating their software to the NYT together with releasing screenshots of what the tablet UI will look like.  According to Amazon’s Ian Freed, VP of Kindle, the company’s software team “have actually developed a tablet-based interface that redesigns [...]

Apple Making Last Minute Adjustments to iBookstore

Posted 11 March 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | 1 Comment

By now, you’re probably just staring at your calendar and watch, watching as they march inexorably closer to the inevitable launch date of the Apple tablet. Oh, and don’t forget that tomorrow is a big day as well. Tomorrow is the day you can pre-order your iPad. Apple is ready. Or, should we say that [...]

Penguin Shows Off Their Ideas for the iPad

Posted 04 March 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

And we are pretty excited by what we are seeing. Just as we saw with The New York Times’ iPad demonstration at the iPad keynote, the content isn’t the only thing that’s going to sell eBooks. It’s the interactivity. When a student is holding the iPad in their hands, looking over their anatomy text, they [...]

Everything iPad Week in Review — Week 6 2010

Posted 08 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

Another week gone by, and talk about Apple’s tablet hasn’t died down. No surprise there, as people start counting down the days until the iPad can officially be in their hands, and a lot of the questions can start being answered. Over the last week, we’ve seen all sorts of things come out of the [...]

Book Publishers Continue Pricing Shuffle in Wake of iPad Announcement

Posted 05 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

The iPad is an eReader. It’s a lot of other things, too, but one of its primary uses is an eReader. Even if Steve Jobs hadn’t centered on that little bit of information in his keynote, or informed the world of its impending iBookstore, everyone still would have known that this is one of the [...]