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Eddy Cue: Steve Jobs picked 'Winnie the Pooh' as the iBooks freebie, also came up with the idea for 'page curls'

by Yoni Heisler (Jun 17th, 2013)

While testifying in court last week, Apple executive Eddy Cue had a number of interesting tidbits regarding the origins of the iBookstore, namely that Steve Jobs was initially opposed to the idea, but quickly hopped on board after Cue convinced him that the iPad would make the perfect ...

Steve Jobs didn't want an iBookstore until Eddy Cue convinced him

by Yoni Heisler (Jun 14th, 2013)

During Apple's e-book price-fixing case on Thursday, Apple executive Eddy Cue testified that Steve Jobs initially wasn't interested in getting into the e-book market at all. Lucky for us, All Things D was on hand to capture all of the courtroom details describing the backstory behind Apple's ...

Eddy Cue takes the stand in e-book price fixing case

by Yoni Heisler (Jun 13th, 2013)

Apple executive Eddy Cue didn't get a chance to enjoy WWDC in its entirety because earlier today he was in New York City testifying about Apple's dealings with book publishers amid allegations that Apple colluded with publishers to artificially raise the price of e-books across the industry. While ...

The Steve Jobs smoking gun email that wasn't

by Yoni Heisler (Jun 13th, 2013)

As part of its ongoing effort to prove that Apple colluded with publishers to raise the price of e-books across the board, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Apple strong-armed publishers into renegotiating their existing contracts with Amazon in order to switch over to the agency model of ...

Apple says it has 20% of the e-book market

by Yoni Heisler (Jun 13th, 2013)

With Apple's legal battle with the DOJ now in its second week, more details surrounding Apple's success in the e-book market have emerged. While the e-book market still, by and large, belongs to Amazon, it appears that Apple has been doing much better than most would have initially imagined. Though ...

US Justice Department makes opening arguments in e-book price fixing case

by Yoni Heisler (Jun 4th, 2013)

Apple's e-book price fixing trial began yesterday in New York and the US Justice Department wasted no time painting a picture purporting to show that Apple, along with five publishing houses, colluded to artificially raise the price of e-books. In a series of 81 slides released on Monday, the ...

Judge reportedly leaning towards DoJ in Apple e-book case

by Yoni Heisler (May 24th, 2013)

In less than two weeks, Apple will head to trial over allegations that it colluded with five publishing houses in an effort to inflate the price of e-books. Indeed, the Justice Department last week released internal Apple emails which it claims supports the allegation that Apple was a "ringleader" ...

Penguin settles iBooks price fixing lawsuit for $75 million

by Yoni Heisler (May 22nd, 2013)

Penguin Group today agreed to a US$75 million settlement deal with the US State Attorneys General and a group of private plaintiffs. The settlement stems from allegations that Penguin, along with four other publishing houses, colluded with Apple to raise the price of e-books on Apple's ...

Justice Department calls Apple the 'ringmaster' in e-book price fixing case

by Yoni Heisler (May 15th, 2013)

Back in April 2012, the US Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and a number of publishers for allegedly colluding to raise the price of e-books on the iBookstore. The original suit targeted five publishing companies; Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon ...

Sony reader for iOS now available

by Mike Wehner (Nov 5th, 2012)

If you own an iOS device and have for some reason been refusing to simply use iBooks for your e-book needs, Sony is swooping in just in the nick of time two-years-late with its own Reader app. The new app is rather basic in its feature set, with exciting bullet points like "Create your own ...

Amazon, Apple customers to get credits for price-fixed e-books

by Mike Wehner (Oct 15th, 2012)

E-book buyers who unwittingly fell victim to the much publicized price-fixing scheme to universally raise the cost of popular digital reading materials will soon receive a credit for their troubles. Both Amazon and Apple have started distributing emails to customers who can expect a credit. ...

iPhone User Guide for iOS 6 now available as an eBook

by Mel Martin (Sep 23rd, 2012)

Always nice to see something free from Apple, and the timing couldn't be better. The iBooks version of the iPhone User Guide for iOS 6 is available on the iBookstore. Apple isn't much on paper manuals these days; most Apple products come with a thin little guide, so many users get their tips ...

European antitrust regulators probe Apple's e-book deals

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 6th, 2011)

The European Commission has formally launched an antitrust investigation against Apple and book publishers Hachette Libre, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Holtzbrinck, the German owner of Macmillan. The commission is looking into the possibility that Apple conspired with these ...

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 visibility in direct sunlight. As far as ads go it's ...

Found Footage: Turn an iPod touch into a Moleskine book

by Cory Bohon (Jun 13th, 2008)

Wired has posted a guide/video showing you how to turn your iPod touch into a Moleskine book. They go on to turn the iPod touch into an e-reader type device by jailbreaking it. They used an application called "free Books" which can be found in the installer.app once your iPod touch has been ...