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The iBookstore six months after launch: One big failure

by David Winograd (Oct 14th, 2010)

It's been over six months since the release of the iPad on April 3rd, and the simultaneous launch of iBooks and the iBookstore, which promised to give Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Store a run for its money. I figured that this would be a good time to ...

Kindle ad goes on the offensive against the iPad

by Matt Tinsley (Sep 21st, 2010)

Amazon's taken a leaf out of Apple's advertising book (Mac vs PC, anyone?) by going head to head with the iPad maker in the most recent Kindle television ad. Most noticeably, the spot delivers a low blow to the iPad's comparatively poor screen ...

myFry: Stephen Fry's second autobiography becomes an interactive app

by David Winograd (Sep 13th, 2010)

I've been following actor, all around wit, and Apple enthusiast Stephen Fry's career since I saw him play the wonderfully droll and brilliant butler, Jeeves in the English TV series Jeeves and Wooster back in the early 90's. Hugh Laurie, probably ...

A quick tutorial on how to read PDF-formatted ebooks in iBooks

by Steven Sande (Aug 5th, 2010)

When me and my fellow TUAW bloggers Erica Sadun and Mike Grothaus recently had our collaborative effort "Taking Your iPad to the Max" published by Apress in both ebook and printed format, I wanted to make sure that I had a copy of the book on my iPad ...

TUAW Bookshelf: Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide

by Steven Sande (Mar 22nd, 2010)

When it comes to software reference books, there are three major varieties -- the detailed soup-to-nuts books that try to tell you everything and weigh about ten pounds, the "dummies" type that are usually so full of obvious information that they're ...

Have we seen the end of the $9.99 eBook?

by David Winograd (Feb 1st, 2010)

At the roll out of the iPad, our old friend Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal chatted up Steve, and when asking about the pricing of buying books from the iBookstore, Walt was told that the price would be the same as Amazon. Amazon currently ...

All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple's iBookstore

by Steven Sande (Jan 31st, 2010)

Overlooked in much of the hype about the iPad announcement earlier in the week was a comment by Steve Jobs in the Keynote presentation where he mentioned that the iBooks app for iPad would take advantage of the popular EPUB format for electronic ...

iPad vs. Kindle: Which way to go?

by Mel Martin (Jan 28th, 2010)

In my post yesterday I touched on the likely long faces at Amazon H.Q. in Seattle. The iPad is something I'm sure they wished hadn't happened, but of course it did, and I thought I'd take a closer look at the competition between the Amazon and Apple ...

Two new Snow Leopard titles from Take Control Books -- and a giveaway

by Steven Sande (Aug 27th, 2009)

Do you have a few hours to kill while you're waiting in line at the Apple Store for your Snow Leopard upgrade? Take Control Books has just the thing to help fill your time and your mind! Two new Snow Leopard titles have been released today in both ...

Take Control of Maintaining, Troubleshooting your Mac

by Steven Sande (May 25th, 2009)

Author Joe Kissell has been informing and entertaining Mac users for years through his books, TidBITS columns and Macworld articles. He's recently finished a pair of books for the Take Control ebook series that will help you learn how to keep your ...

Take Control of iWeb '09 with exclusive TUAW discount

by Michael Rose (May 14th, 2009)

With the introduction of iWeb '09, Apple pumped up the volume on its entry-level website authoring tool, making it more functional and flexible for novice users while adding enough power -- multi-site publishing options, FTP upload to unlock users ...

TUAW Bookshelf: Inside Secrets to an iPhone App

by Steven Sande (May 12th, 2009)

Many TUAW readers have probably bought an iPhone app and had the thought "I could do better than this!" go through their minds. Sometimes you're wondering when someone else is going to write an app to do just the thing you want to do with your iPhone ...

Win a copy of iPhone In Action and start making iPhone apps

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 23rd, 2009)

Last month I reviewed iPhone in Action for our TUAW Bookshelf series. Since then iPhone OS 3.0 has been unveiled, and developers have access, but the basics haven't changed. iPhone in Action covers more than the SDK, with the first half of the book ...

Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, Third Edition

by Steven Sande (Feb 20th, 2009)

Joe Kissell is an extraordinary Mac writer, so when he took on the task of writing the first edition of Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac a few years ago, I knew he was going to do an amazing job. Joe has just finished writing the third ...

Starting out with Objective-C

by Todd Ritter (Jan 15th, 2009)

I recently decided to embark on a personal challenge to learn Objective-C (the programming language behind Mac and iPhone applications) so that I could one day get applications into the App Store. I'm not looking to make millions with a fart machine ...

AppleScript 1-2-3 now available from Peachpit Press

by Steven Sande (Dec 24th, 2008)

Mac users rejoice! Santa brought just what you wanted, a new book about AppleScript by the two of the top wizards of the Mac automation world. Apple's Product Manager for Automation, Sol Soghoian, and Bill Cheeseman, who is a noted developer in his ...