Mar 25 2010

iPad iBookstore to Include FREE Project Gutenberg Catalog?

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AppAdvice has followed up their $9.99 bestseller sneak-peak with more screenshots they claim come from the pre-release iPad iBooks and iBookstore, this time indicating Apple is including that massive Project Gutenberg library of free eBook content right in the app.

We mentioned Project Gutenberg last week and it’s 30,000 ePub-format, iBooks friendly public domain titles and [...]

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Mar 24 2010

Apple iBook Bestsellers to be Priced at $9.99?

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AppAdvice claims to have gotten a sneak-peak at the iPad iBookstore and says the prices for bestsellers aren’t nearly as high as we expected — in fact they mostly match the $9.99 loss-leading price Amazon pioneered with its Kindle.

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang By Chelsea Handler – $9.99
The Help by [...]

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Mar 22 2010

Amazon, Barnes & Noble Readying Book Stores for iPad

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Confirming that it won’t just be Apple’s iBookstore (and your own free ePubs) on the iPad, the New York Times today mentions that both Amazon and Barnes & Noble are both working on book stores of their own. While both market their own hardware devices, the Kindle and the Nook respectively, the iPad is expected [...]

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Mar 22 2010

iPad 101: Get Your Free ePub eBooks at Project Gutenberg

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Waiting for Apple’s iPad and its iBooks and iBookstore app? The outstanding Project Gutenberg has 30,000 free-as-in-beer-and-and-as-in-speech ePub format eBooks to help keep you start building your library today.

If you’re not already familiar with the geeky details, ePub is the open, free-flowing eBook format that Apple is using for iBooks. However, let’s caveat that “open” [...]

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Mar 8 2010

iPad TV Commercial Shows iBooks Pricing, NYT Best Seller Button, My Documents, Smudge/Camera

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While I was busy enjoying the subtler UI details, AppleInsider noticed that last night’s iPad commercial debut showed what might be some of the pricing inside the new iBooks Store:

The commercial showed Sen. Edward Kennedy’s “True Compass: A Memoir” for $14.99, the novel “I, Alex Cross” by James Patterson for $12.99, and “Three [...]

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