Quick Notes: iPad news roundup
Here are some interesting bits of news from the last couple days of the iPad sales frenzy.
Investor Village estimates that 120,000 iPads were preordered in the first day, with wifi-only models beating out wifi+3G by a 2:1 ratio.
"Apple has been able to generate over $75 million in revenue in one day on a product that 99.9% of purchasers haven’t touched or for that matter, even seen in person," said Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Group. "And, we’re still three weeks away. That is amazing."
The Unofficial Apple Weblog estimates that about 41,000 of those devices were reserved for in-store pickup at an Apple Store.
It has also come out that, rather than just replace the battery, Apple will replace the entire iPad for $99 once the battery wears out. Engadget worries that this will mean the complete loss of all personal data stored on the iPad.
However, this has always been a possibility. Apple has always warned that any device sent in for service should be backed up beforehand because it is possible they will send a different unit back. This time they are simply being explicit that this will happen.
Sam Jordison on the Guardian Books Blog meditates on 
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After attending several sessions on e-books and e-readers at the Publishing Business Conference and Expo, I came away with the following:
Jason Epstein, who was interviewed by NPR for 
A study published by the University of Rennes shows that the critics of the three strikes law were right. Instead of the threat of disconnection deterring pirates, the incidence of piracy actually increased 3%.
Plastic Logic has announced it is delaying the Que for several more months. 
Romance publisher Harlequin has hit the Nintendo DS in Japan, according to the 
We are constantly hearing about issues of e-book price, but it seems very little has been said on the matter of e-magazine price. In an interesting and lengthy piece, linking to a number of other sources, Stephen Duque looks 
With the release date of the iPad nearing, and a dozen different e-ink-based e-book readers exploding onto the market, the e-book device field is more confused than ever. Are pretty color tablets going to spell the end of black-and-white e-ink readers?
I spent some time this week going through my ebook library, tagging everything with appropriate labels and pasting in book summaries from bookstore websites. With almost 800 books in my growing collection, I wanted to have an easier time finding unread books to suit my mood, or old favourites to explore and re-visit. So what did I learn from my ebook spring cleaning?
