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Jumsoft releases five new iBooks Author templates

Kirk Hiner — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:39:28 +0000

Two weeks after Apple unveiled its iBooks Author program for designing interactive e-books, template king Jumsoft was there with its first set of iBooks Author templates, dubbed Book Palette. Jumsoft has now expanded that collection to 25 with the announcement of five new designs that offer “ … upmarket design quality at a reasonable price.” The five new [...]

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Why I’m giving up on the iBooks App

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:00:37 +0000

This has been a year of tech experimentation for me. I gave up my clunky-but-serviceable Kindle Touch in favor of a slick, front-lit Kobo. I relegated my iPad 2 to work functions, and picked up a more ergonomic iPad Mini for home use. And I experimented with various apps in search of a perfect reading [...]

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Baen soon coming to iBooks, finally posts announcements of changes to web site

Chris Meadows — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:13:53 +0000

A month and a half since Baen made the jump to Amazon availability, the publisher is about to add another feather to its cap. On her forum on the Baen Bar, publisher Toni Weisskopf has mentioned that Baen e-books will soon be available DRM-free in Apple’s iBooks store. A formal announcement will be made when [...]

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Apple awarded patent for digital page turning

Chris Meadows — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:15:44 +0000

Here I go, turn the page. On the NY Times Bits blog, Nick Bilton gleefully reports that the patent office has seen fit to award Apple a design patent on, of all things, the digital page turn used in iBooks. Bilton uses this as proof of the ridiculousness of the current patent system, as well [...]

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Single issues of DC Comics come to Kindle, Nook, and iBooks e-book stores

Chris Meadows — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:00:12 +0000

Seems like only yesterday that DC Comics was adding the Nook tablets to its formerly exclusive deal with the Kindle Fire platform, and releasing graphic novels via e-book stores. But the thing about DC on those color tablets was that the comics were actually sold through third-party stores like comiXology, or DC’s own app Vertigo. [...]

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Apple leaks mention of iBooks 3.0, reinforcing iPad mini focus on e-books

Aggregated Content — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:30:24 +0000

The appearance of the yet unreleased “iBooks 3.0″ as a requirement for certain titles in Apple’s iBookstore suggests the company will soon update its ebook client app for iOS, likely in conjunction with the release of iPad mini. According to a report by The Next Web, there is already at least one title in the French iTunes [...]

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‘The awkward feeling of mindless improvisation’ – The iBookstore comes to Latin America

Chris Meadows — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:15:00 +0000

Did you think that e-book vendors have a hard time with Apple here in the USA? Publishing Perspectives has a terrific (one might even say hilarious in some places) report on the frenetic activity engendered by Apple’s decision to launch its iBookstore in Latin America. Among other things, it asked Latin American publishers to redo [...]

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Latest Ars Technica OS X review has bumpy road to e-book release

Chris Meadows — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:59:25 +0000

Last year we covered Ars Technica publishing John Siracusa’s 27,000-word comprehensive review of OS X 10.7 Lion as an e-book, and the very successful sales numbers for a review that could still be read free on-line. This year, with the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Siracusa has done it again—but as the Nieman [...]

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DC Comics releases Batman graphic novel via iBooks

Chris Meadows — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:20:23 +0000

Less than a month after finally coming to Barnes & Noble e-books, DC Comics has just placed its first graphic novel with Apple’s iBooks store. The recent graphic novel Batman: Earth One, a revised retelling of Batman’s origin story, will cost $24.95 in print but $12.99 agency pricing on the iBooks store. This will be [...]

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Page-turning animation is popular for e-readers

Chris Meadows — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:17:43 +0000

You wouldn’t think that you would find page-flipping on tablets. But many e-reading apps have it. iBooks has a page-turn animation, which it actually lifted (along with its wooden bookshelf display) from the iPhone e-reader “Classics”. Instapaper recently added page-flipping as an option instead of scrolling. Flipboard uses its own stylized page-flip, too (from which [...]

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Giving e-books as gifts is as as easy as clicking a link

Chris Meadows — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:21:18 +0000

CNet’s Sharon Vaknin has a 3-minute video (embedded below) in which she covers some ways of giving e-books as gifts. While the process is pretty simple overall, it is interesting to see Vaknin present video of how it works. Giving e-books as gifts with the Kindle or Nook is as easy as clicking on “Give [...]

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Ars Technica reviews iBooks Author 1.1

Chris Meadows — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:15:00 +0000

Interested in learning how iBooks Author works? On Ars Technica, Dave Girard has posted a 4-page-long review of the free e-book creator, with lots of screen shots. It goes into a lot of detail about what he learned in using it to create an iBooks version of his e-book 101 Autodesk Maya Tips. In short, [...]

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Cartoonist Bill Amend releases $1.99 FoxTrot mini-collections on iBooks store, explains why

Chris Meadows — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:20:13 +0000

Bill Amend of popular comic strip FoxTrot has recently begun offering a series of $1.99 100-strip mini-collections via the iBooks store. Created using Apple’s iBooks Author, the e-books are “short and curated primarily for an entertaining read on the go,” says Amend in an interview with TechCrunch. The collections came about, Amend says, after he [...]

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Apple rejects Seth Godin e-book over Amazon links

Chris Meadows — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:23:36 +0000

On PaidContent (in a post republished from his Domino Project blog), Seth Godin reports that Apple’s iBooks has rejected one of his e-books because it includes Amazon links to purchase the books he lists in the bibliography. He writes: We’re heading to a world where there are just a handful of influential bookstores (Amazon, Apple, [...]

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iBooks DRM reportedly cracked

Chris Meadows — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:15:00 +0000

A MobileRead thread reports that the Requiem FairPlay DRM-cracking app now removes the DRM from Apple’s iBooks EPUB e-books, in addition to the music and video DRM-removal that it already did. Follow-up comments express skepticism that Apple will let it stand for long without changing their DRM to block it, or that it will make [...]

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