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From: Tim Gowen on 28 Jan 2010 12:22
OK, so the UK site doesn't mention the iPad yet. And the US site says
that iBooks is only available in the USA.

Presumably they've not got deals with UK publishers. I'd said yesterday
that I prefer a paper book, but seeing the iBook implementation made me
wonder whether Apple is going to shake up publishing the way it hat with
music. Most non-savvy people think that iPods are music players and
there's nothing else... could electronic books take off in a big way and
make the iPad as ubiquitous as the iPod?


Tim

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From: Dorian Gray on 28 Jan 2010 12:27
In article <1jd1hfw.y9s86e1e6tfkN%tim(a)nospam.demon.co.uk>,
tim(a)nospam.demon.co.uk (Tim Gowen) wrote:

> could electronic books take off in a big way and
> make the iPad as ubiquitous as the iPod?

Yes.
From: Vivienne Dunstan on 28 Jan 2010 12:30
Tim Gowen <tim(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Presumably they've not got deals with UK publishers.

I hope they sort something out though. Amazon have managed it recently,
including adding UK-published Terry Pratchett books to the Kindle site
for international (including UK) users.

So it isn't inconceivable that Apple could sort something out too.

Viv
From: Woody on 28 Jan 2010 12:47
Tim Gowen <tim(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> OK, so the UK site doesn't mention the iPad yet.

It is impressive that. It is probably one of the few tech websites that
doesn't mention the iPad!

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From: J. J. Lodder on 29 Jan 2010 07:16
Vivienne Dunstan <viv.dunstan(a)one-name.org> wrote:

> Tim Gowen <tim(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Presumably they've not got deals with UK publishers.
>
> I hope they sort something out though. Amazon have managed it recently,
> including adding UK-published Terry Pratchett books to the Kindle site
> for international (including UK) users.
>
> So it isn't inconceivable that Apple could sort something out too.

The iPad will be the Kindle-killer.
A colour screen offers so much more
for illustrated books.

I guess DRM-ed Kindleware is a bad investment,

Jan

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