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Apple iPad Reaches Over 500,000 Units Sold

Posted 08 April 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | 1 Comment

Well, well, well. Looks like we keep getting the good news, don’t we? A new report from Chitika says that Apple may have almost doubled their 300,000 units sold in just four days, with a firm belief that by the end of the week, that number will be pretty much demolished. We never had a [...]

Amazon Kindle for iPad hits App Store

Posted 03 April 2010 | By Chris Davies | Categories: archive | No Comments

Amazon have announced that the Kindle for iPad app has made it through Apple’s approval process and is now in the App Store.  The free app automatically syncs with ebooks bought through Amazon’s service, and synchronizes your reading position with other Kindle hardware and software.
To be honest, we’d been a little curious as to whether [...]

Amazon Kindle iPad app revealed

Posted 22 March 2010 | By Chris Davies | Categories: archive | 1 Comment

Information on Amazon’s plans to get their Kindle app onto the iPad have emerged, with the bookseller demonstrating their software to the NYT together with releasing screenshots of what the tablet UI will look like.  According to Amazon’s Ian Freed, VP of Kindle, the company’s software team “have actually developed a tablet-based interface that redesigns [...]

Upon Closer Inspection, First Advertisement Displays Some iBook Prices

Posted 08 March 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | 1 Comment

When the iPad advertisement hit the airwaves last night, during the 2010 Oscars, there was a slight uproar as people took in the latest (and first publicly aired) ad for Apple’s upcoming tablet. It showed a lot of the great features we’ve been drooling over since the end of January, and we’re pretty positive that [...]

Apple iPad Causes Disinterest in Other eReaders

Posted 05 March 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

There’s no doubt that the iPad is aimed at the eReader market. No doubt at all. Even if it is a tablet, with the ability to play music, play advanced 3D games, and surf the Internet in a versatile manner, it’s also an eReader. And that fact hasn’t been skewed for consumers, who are faced [...]

Everything iPad Week in Review — Week 7 2010

Posted 21 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

Another week gone by, another week in review. There was quite a bit going on this week in Apple/iPad talk, but most of it seemed to stem from the same issues: eBooks, pricing, subscriptions, and Flash. These are the big, burning questions for Apple since the announcement of the iPad, and issues that won’t seem [...]

Everything iPad Week in Review — Week 6 2010

Posted 08 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

Another week gone by, and talk about Apple’s tablet hasn’t died down. No surprise there, as people start counting down the days until the iPad can officially be in their hands, and a lot of the questions can start being answered. Over the last week, we’ve seen all sorts of things come out of the [...]

Book Publishers Continue Pricing Shuffle in Wake of iPad Announcement

Posted 05 February 2010 | By Evan Selleck | Categories: archive | No Comments

The iPad is an eReader. It’s a lot of other things, too, but one of its primary uses is an eReader. Even if Steve Jobs hadn’t centered on that little bit of information in his keynote, or informed the world of its impending iBookstore, everyone still would have known that this is one of the [...]

Amazon: Macmillan ebook prices “needlessly high”

Posted 01 February 2010 | By Chris Davies | Categories: archive | 1 Comment

Amazon have retaliated in the ongoing ebook pricing war with Macmillan, after the publisher released a statement this weekend pushing their reasons for raising ebook bestsellers to $14.99. Describing Macmillan as having “a monopoly over their own titles”, Amazon hammer home the point that they reckon $14.99 is “needlessly high” for an ebook, but also [...]