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Why McGraw-Hill is selling iBooks for $15

by Chris Rawson (Jan 19th, 2012)

The announcement this morning that textbooks would be sold through the iBookstore wasn't especially surprising. But the price was; full-featured multimedia electronic textbooks being offered for no more than US$15 is exactly the kind of disruptive shakeup the industry needed. While only the K-12 ...

iBooks Author accounts are free, existing developers need a new account

by Chris Rawson (Jan 19th, 2012)

Setting up an account to publish books to the iBookstore has always been free, and the new iBooks Author tool has brought that fact into the spotlight. Self-publishing books to the iBookstore does still have a few hurdles you have to leap through, however. As AppleInsider points out, for iOS and ...

Apple's press event is getting "overhyped"

by Dave Caolo (Jan 17th, 2012)

As anticipation builds for Apple's January 19 press event, the tech web has latched onto the notion of "GarageBand for iBooks," suggesting that Apple will release iBook creation tools to the public. Ars Technica believes it's true, while Philip Elmer-Dewitt does not. Interestingly, both opinions ...

What to expect from Apple's education event: Digital textbooks, 'GarageBand for ebooks'

by Chris Rawson (Jan 16th, 2012)

The Wall Street Journal and Ars Technica have weighed in with information about Apple's upcoming education event. Both outlets cite the usual "people familiar with the matter" for their information, and their sources have generally given accurate info in the past. With those caveats out of the ...

Apple announces Jan. 19 event at Guggenheim in NYC

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 11th, 2012)

Apple has sent out invitations to various media outlets, including The Loop, to attend an event centering on education at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on Jan. 19. The event is expected to focus on iTunes U and electronic textbooks and has been in the works since late September. At ...

How Apple iBooks needs to compete with Amazon: Cross-platform support

by Erica Sadun (Jan 6th, 2012)

Amazon has trailblazed; Apple has followed. Apple's iBooks program currently allows authors to self-publish ebooks. Authors create their own business built around iTunes Connect, just as they do for self-published apps. So where does Apple have room to improve? What follows is one of several ...

How Apple iBooks needs to compete with Amazon: Better author tools

by Erica Sadun (Jan 5th, 2012)

Apple event this month to focus on iTunes U and textbook initiative

by Steven Sande (Jan 3rd, 2012)

Yesterday, TUAW reported on a rumored Apple media event to be held in New York City later this month. Shortly after that post blessed the Interwebs, TUAW followed up with further detail from sister site TechCrunch. The word from the TechCrunchers was that the January event will focus on iBooks ...

Daily iPad App: Trenches 2

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2011)

Thunder Game Works' Trenches was quite the hit on the iPhone last year, combining a cartoony World War 2 setting with some solid real-time strategy combat and quite a few innovative game features. The game also spawned a few spinoffs, and was popular enough for EA to publish the sequel. There ...

Conde Nast Britain gives subscribers free iPad access

by Steven Sande (Nov 10th, 2011)

Condé Nast Britain has begun to provide existing print subscribers with access to equivalent digital editions on the iPad at no cost. According to an article published on the UK Association of Online Publishers website, Apple's Newsstand app has increased the issue sales of British GQ by ...

Sandvox hits Mac App Store, on sale for limited time

by Dave Caolo (Oct 26th, 2011)

We reviewed Sandvox earlier this year, the handy WYSIWYG web editor from Karelia Software. Those looking for very Mac-friendly web design software that requires no coding (or even an iWeb replacement) ought to consider Sandvox. The time is right, too, as version 2.1.10 is in the Mac App Store ...

Image Comics joins the ComiXology banner

by Mike Schramm (Oct 3rd, 2011)

ComiXology has grabbed yet another major comic book publisher for its iOS app, this time recruiting Image Comics to publish to the digital platform day and date with the paper releases. The app has already landed both DC and Marvel in publishing agreements, so adding the Image stable of comics ...

French papers team up to oppose Apple's Newsstand

by Steven Sande (Sep 21st, 2011)

Much in the way that Apple has come to dominate the media shopping experience through iTunes, the company is now aiming to make purchasing of newspapers and magazines much easier through iOS 5's Newsstand. The app is billed as a digital kiosk at which you can buy individual issues and ...

Adobe to support iOS 5 Newsstand

by Dave Caolo (Sep 7th, 2011)

Adobe has confirmed that it will support iOS 5's Newsstand publishing "soon after" the iOS update is released this fall. The company's Digital Publishing Suite works with Creative Suite 5.5 to create publications for the iPad, Android and RIM's PlayBook. Users can expect files created with ...

Apple involved in class-action lawsuit over ebook pricing

by Chris Rawson (Aug 10th, 2011)

On today's episode of The Daily Lawsuit: law firm Hagens Berman has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and five of the major book publishing houses. The suit claims Apple and these publishers have conspired to raise prices on ebooks. According to the suit, Amazon's loss-leading ...