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First issue of WIRED re-released as an iPad app

by Steven Sande (Jun 4th, 2012)

Are you a fan of WIRED Magazine? The first issue of the Condé Nast tech magazine appeared back in January of 1993 with futurist Bruce Sterling talking about war and MIT Media Lab's Nicholas Negroponte pontificating about "What's wrong with HDTV." WIRED fans who want to relive the past of ...

Pitch Perfect is the perfect marketing primer for the indie developer

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 25th, 2012)

If you're a developer with an app and a dream, you would do well to pick up Pitch Perfect by TUAW's Erica Sadun and Steve Sande. Their book lifts the veil on how app reviewers, bloggers specifically, operate. Most of the advice I give to people looking to pitch an app is in this book. Added to the ...

Judge refuses request to dismiss ebook class action suit

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 15th, 2012)

Apple received a legal slap on Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Denise Cote rejected a request to dismiss a class action lawsuit against Apple and five publishers. Cote scoffed at the idea that Apple and the publishers acted independently in coming up with what's known as agency pricing, their ...

Harry Potter books now available for iPad, other eReaders

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 27th, 2012)

It's been a long time coming, but the Harry Potter books are finally available from the Pottermore store in eBook form. This means you can finally put Potter on your iPad! There are also audiobooks available, but the CD's were out long ago and these are just digital downloads. Still, it's very ...

Apple begins defense against possible ebook antitrust case

by Steven Sande (Mar 9th, 2012)

Apple is wasting no time beginning to defend itself against the possibility of a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action alleging that the company conspired with publishers to fix ebook prices. Last week, Apple requested that a class action suit alleging price-fixing on ebooks be thrown ...

iBookstore adds screenshots, promo codes, and more for publishers

by Chris Rawson (Feb 15th, 2012)

iTunes Connect has sent out a letter to content publishers detailing some changes and improvements to the iBookstore. Just like the App Store, the iBookstore now allows publishers to issue promo codes for content sold on the store -- up to 50 free codes distributable to book reviewers. Publishers ...

Students demonstrate innovative iPad book page flip

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 24th, 2012)

One major complaint about reading an eBook is the experience; holding an iPad is just not the same as holding a book and thumbing through the pages. This complaint may lose some of its weight if the folks at the KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence can get their patented Smart ...

Amazon launches iPad-optimized Kindle store

by Steven Sande (Jan 10th, 2012)

You may remember the good old days when you could use Amazon's Kindle e-reader app for iOS to pop right into the online Kindle store to purchase ebooks. That feature went away in July of 2011 in order to comply with Apple's policies. Amazon today launched an iPad-optimized Kindle Store website ...

Apple releases iBooks 1.5, adds Night mode, fullscreen reading and more

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 6th, 2011)

Apple has released an update to its iBooks app. The iBooks 1.5 update brings some substantial new features to Apple's ereader software including the following: Nighttime reading theme makes reading books in the dark easier on the eyes. Full-screen layout lets you focus on the words ...

Read all of Skyrim's literature on your iPad

by Mike Schramm (Nov 28th, 2011)

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim isn't available on the Mac yet, but odds are that if you're a big fan of gaming, you're probably already playing it on consoles or the PC. Bethesda's latest role-playing game is just a massive piece of world-building, with tons of dungeons to crawl through, a huge ...

Daily iPad App: A Charlie Brown Christmas

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 28th, 2011)

Forty-six years after it debuted on prime-time television, the beloved Christmas classic A Charlie Brown Christmas comes to a new medium -- the iPad. But instead of simply releasing it as a downloadable video, the A Charlie Brown Christmas app turns the story of an incredibly depressed child ...

Amazon introduces free lending library for Prime members

by Erica Sadun (Nov 3rd, 2011)

If you own a Kindle -- the hardware device, not the software app that runs on your iPhone or iPad, and you're an Amazon Prime member, you can now borrow thousands of books to read on your device. The equation goes like this: Kindle + Prime = about 5000 titles include a hundred or so current and ...

Steve Jobs biography released early for Kindle, iBookstore (updated)

by Chris Rawson (Oct 23rd, 2011)

Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs has been released a couple hours early on the Kindle Store, and its release in the US iBookstore is expected at midnight. The US iBookstore is still showing the book as available for pre-order as of this writing, but it should be available for download ...

Steve Jobs in 1995: "I've got a plan that could rescue Apple"

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 28th, 2011)

Yesterday we told you that Fortune was publishing a Kindle ebook called "All About Steve." The ebook is a collection of 17 stories and interviews with Steve Jobs drawn from Fortune's articles. Now, while it's nice that Fortune is collecting all their interviews in one place, its no shock they ...

Fortune publishes 'All About Steve' ebook featuring Jobs

by Chris Rawson (Sep 27th, 2011)

If you can't wait another two months for Walter Isaacson's official Steve Jobs biography, Fortune has you covered with All About Steve, a collection of 17 stories drawn from Fortune's articles. Available as a Kindle ebook at a list price of US$10.99, the collection features stories that "are the ...