Apple have announced sales figures for the iPad’s first day of availability, and as you might expect they’re glowing. Pre-orders, Apple Store sales and iPads sold through Apple’s channel partners amounted to over 300,000 units in the period from 9am EST to midnight on Saturday April 3rd.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Textbook content was a relatively quiet announcement back at the iPad launch last week, but it seems to be a key drive in Apple’s ebook strategy. According to the WSJ, software company ScrollMotion Inc. have been enlisted by various publishers – including McGraw-Hill Cos. and Pearson Education – to create iBooks-friendly digital versions of their [...]
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