In early January, Apple released iBooks Author, a groundbreaking drag-and-drop ebook authoring environment that promises to democratize the production of complex, structured books, notably including textbooks. But iBooks Author could also presage something else: the eclipse of open ebook standards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A couple weeks after introducing its new iBooks Author app, Apple has clarified legal language about what happens to the books users create with the software. Apple continues to insist that users can only sell electronic books in the iBook format via its iTunes store. But it makes it clear that... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publishers have welcomed the launch of Apple’s iBooks Author self-publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
There's a strange concept in marketing that no publicity is really bad. If people talk about you, it broadly raises brand awareness. People eventually forget the bad news but not the brand. Who remembers last year's furor over Apple's onerous publisher subscription terms? That's the eventual... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple can improve education and empower authors to create ever-better digital books without limiting customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple’s iPad has fairly quickly become a great tool for the workplace and in education and the company’s latest bid to revolutionize the market is with ebooks. Ebooks themselves are nothing new, but the existence of touchscreen devices such as the iPad means that the opportunities available to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
While the launch of Apple’s iBooks 2, its new multimedia textbook format, and iBooks Author, the free authoring tool Apple has produced to create them, may indeed “reinvent the textbook,” there are a lot of questions to be answered before it does. That doesn’t mean that Apple didn’t put on quite... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a private event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on Thursday, Apple unveiled its multi-pronged approach for cracking the higher education market with iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. The result is an environment for creating, distributing, and consuming learning materials that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
iBooks Author is a free Mac app designed to let authors and publishers easily create multimedia-rich e-textbooks for the iBooks 2 app. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 28/09/2011 - 08:45 The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 is to host an event at the Apple Store in Covent Garden, London, as it links up with the iBookstore. Shortlisted authors Carol Birch, Patrick deWitt and A D Miller will take part in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 18/08/2011 - 11:50 Children's publisher Walker Books has become the latest to sign up to the iBookstore, with books by the likes of Anthony Horowitz, Cassandra Clare and Patrick Ness on sale. Paul Rhodes, head of digital at Walker Books, said:... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Wed, 10/08/2011 - 15:07 Granta Publications has put its books onto the iBookstore, with all digitised titles from Granta Books and Portobello now made available. Marketing and digital development director Iain Chapple said: "We are committed to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 12/07/2011 - 09:24 Quercus has become the latest publisher to join the iBookstore, making the likes of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy available for iPad and iPhone. The publisher does not yet seem to have implemented full agency pricing. On... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Wed, 06/07/2011 - 07:32 La Martinière is the latest French publisher to sign up to sell ebooks through Apples iBookstore. About 150 La Martinière and Seuil titles are available so far, with another 300 expected to follow by the end of the summer,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 09/06/2011 - 09:55 Faber is the latest publisher to announce it has joined Apple's iBookstore in the UK, France and Germany. Both Faber and Faber Factory titles are included. C.e.o. and publisher Stephen Page said: "We're delighted to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 31/05/2011 - 16:09 Lonely Planet has brought three of its photo-heavy travel books to Apples iBookstore for the first time from today. The travel publisher is offering Lonely Planet's Best in Travel for free until 14th June with The Travel Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Jenny Roper Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 15:25 Book recommendation website Lovereading.co.uk has added Apple's iBooks to its ebook recommendations section. As well as pointing readers in the direction of ePub and Kindle formats, Lovereading.co.uk will now feature an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Thursday, Apple released a minor update to its iBooks ebook and PDF reading app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 15/03/2011 - 15:45 Apple's latest version of its iBooks app, which allows ebooks to have a pictorial layout similar to printed books and supports full page illustrations, has been hailed by one publisher as being "the beginning of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 02/03/2011 - 18:05 Random House US is introducing 17,000 books to the iBookstore, several days after it announced it had moved to agency pricing. At this afternoon's Apple iPad event in San Francisco, Apple c.e.o. Steve Jobs said users have... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]