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Apple's iBookstore to hit Japan this year

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 2nd, 2013)

Before Apple rolled out the iBookstore in Japan in 2010, it failed to negotiate the necessary contracts with Japan's biggest book publishers. As a result, the iBookstore in Japan was stocked predominately with free, public domain e-books. The only paid e-books in the store have been from very ...

Apple ordered to pay settlement in Chinese App Store copyright case

by Randy Nelson (Dec 27th, 2012)

Imagine you're an author and you find out that someone has been selling your books on the App Store without your consent -- and, worse, you don't see a dime of the profits. That's what happened to a group of eight writers in China, and a court there has decided that Apple owes them ...

NASA offers free e-book for iPad owners

by Mel Martin (Dec 22nd, 2012)

What a nice holiday gift from NASA: it's an interactive e-book available in the iBookstore called Hubble Space Telescope: Discoveries, featuring beautiful images, video and animations relating to the space telescope that is giving us striking new views of the universe we live in. "These new ...

Apple settles with EU over e-book pricing, hands Amazon a victory

by Steven Sande (Dec 13th, 2012)

Apple's long battle with European Union regulators over e-book pricing has ended with Apple and four publishers offering to let retailers set prices or discounts for the next two years and suspend "most-favored nation" contracts for five years. The EU responded positively to the news. ...

DevJuice: Stanford iTunes U course on iOS dev launches free textbook

by Erica Sadun (Nov 26th, 2012)

If you're a fan of the highly popular Stanford iTunes U course on iOS development (CS193P), you'll be happy to learn that an official companion text is now available on iBooks. iPad and iPhone App Development covers the latest release of Xcode and the newest Objective C enhancements. ...

Flipboard adds support for Apple's iBookstore

by Dave Caolo (Nov 15th, 2012)

The developers of Flipboard, the magazine-style feed reader for the iPad, have announced integration with Apple's iBookstore. The new "Books" category lets customers browse a book's title, image and description. If you find one you like, there's a link to buy in from Apple right in the app. All ...

Apple awarded design patent for iBooks page turning animation, Smart Case

by Randy Nelson (Nov 13th, 2012)

When it comes to the question of how many patents Apple can possibly hold, the answer is easy: at least one more. To that end, the company has been awarded a patent on the page curling animation used in iBooks. You know, that neat way the page curls and follows your finger as you slowly leaf ...

DC Comics makes deal for Kindle, iBookstore, and Nook

by Mike Schramm (Nov 7th, 2012)

I've written a few times here about Comixology and its strong hold on comics on the iPad, and DC Comics has now signed a deal to put its funny books on three big digital platforms, including Apple's iBookstore. iBooks already had some DC graphic novels available, but this deal is set up to ...

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 ...

iBook lessons: Mac clients and built-in updates

by Erica Sadun (Oct 24th, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about e-book writing and publishing. Since yesterday's announcement, I've been having a series of conversations -- in email, on the phone, on Twitter -- regarding iBooks, the iBookstore, and why iBooks for Mac remains missing in action. Many in the book ...

Apple releases iBooks 3, iBooks Author 2

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 24th, 2012)

Hours after announcing updates to iBooks and iBooks Author at Tuesday's iPad mini event, Apple has released iBooks 3 through the App Store and iBooks Author 2 through the Mac App Store. iBooks 3 changes include: The ability to see all iBookstore purchases in iCloud in iOS 6 Endless ...

Daily Update for October 23, 2012

by Steven Sande (Oct 23rd, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple updates iBooks Author with support for multitouch widgets, OTA book updates

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 23rd, 2012)

Apple used its press event today to introduce a new version of iBooks Author. The latest version of the book authoring tool lets users embed custom fonts, insert mathematical equations into a book and add multitouch widgets. There's also over-the-air book updates and a handful of new templates ...

Apple announces iBooks 3

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 23rd, 2012)

Tim Cook announced iBooks 3 today, with iCloud integration, continuous scrolling and the ability to share excerpts from books via Facebook and Twitter. iBooks 3 will support more than 40 languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. It will be available through iTunes, most likely at some ...

Paid iBookstore content now live in New Zealand, 17 other countries

by Mike Wehner (Oct 22nd, 2012)

It looks like e-book lovers around the world can definitely look forward to tomorrow's expected iPad mini reveal, as paid iBookstore content has just gone live in 17 new countries. If a smaller iPad is indeed in the cards -- and we're pretty sure it is -- it will compete directly with Amazon's ...