The Apple
iBookstore Comes to Canada — Residents of Canada can finally pay too much for ebooks that are locked into Apple's iBookstore.
Apples
iBookstore comes in at 9 with 14 votes and Books on Board with 13 votes.
Not exact matches
But The Bookseller reports that Pottermore wasn't able to
come to an
iBookstore agreement with Apple by the time the Pottermore shop launched.
The ponies have it in the
iBookstore, and that issue # 16 in the fourth slot is a pre-order, which means enough people are shelling out for this comic before it
comes out to boost it to a decent rating.
When Apple was launching their own
iBookstore before the Apple iPad 1
came out, they coerced publishers to provide an even playing field so the company could compete against Amazon.
Carla King presents Blurb Offers New Tools for Color Book Authors posted at PBS MediaShift, saying, «Blurb recently added an offset color book printing service, warehousing and fulfillment, distribution to Amazon.com and Apple's
iBookstore, with rumors of Ingram distribution to
come soon.
This announcement
comes along with Lulu's distribution of French - language content to the
iBookstore as well, which officially makes Lulu the first self - publishing company to offer eBook distribution for both English and non-English content.
Much more news
came in this week, such as Random House Books available on the
iBookstore and Asus announcement of a quad - core tablet.
Choose Your Own Adventure has now
come to the digital age on the Apple iPad with ten books to purchase via the
iBookstore.
What is even more interesting (apart from that the announcement
comes just hours ahead of the iPad2 official launch) is that the Random House e-books have made it to the
iBookstore just 2 days after it had adopted the Agency Pricing methodology.
Apple has added a new section of the
iBookstore called Breakout Books that highlights up and
coming self - published books from «emerging talents.»
The iPad starts at $ 499, but with the higher price
comes more functions: a color touch screen for downloading books from Apple's new
iBookstore, surfing the Web, playing videos and games and more.
More ebook readers will be
coming out for the iPad so even if
iBookstore is not available yet, there should be plenty of ebooks from other sources.
Books
coming from Smashwords are already up on the
iBookstores, and having this access is going to be more important when and if the
iBookstore becomes more dominant in bookselling.
They recently
came out with an ePub converter (good), but are now automatically distributing books to the
iBookstore and Nook (not as good).
Irish readers do not yet have access to paid titles in Apple's
iBookstore, the iTunes for books, but they can download free Project Gutenberg ebooks to the iPod or iPhone and can also read the free Winnie The Pooh ebook that
comes pre-loaded in Apple's iBooks.
Part of the reason (perhaps the main reason) Random House succumbed, 11 months later, is to get their e-books on Apple's
iBookstore, which requires an agency model contract (the timing of the announcement
coming on the heels of the iPad 2 introduction can't be a coincidence).
Heiss sought to demonstrate that Amazon needed participation from all of the Big 6 publishers in order to launch the Kindle Store in 2007,; to make it clear that Amazon was aware of publishers» dislike of the $ 9.99 price point long before Apple
came on the scene; and to show that Amazon had reasons of its own to switch to agency pricing, beyond the notion that Apple's launch of the
iBookstore forced it to.
Apple does need to
come up with something as attractive, such as including
iBookstore discount coupons with the sale of Macs, iPads and iPhones.
Look forward to your picture book
coming out on
iBookstore soon!
Thanks to Laurie Tom (Gold Award Winner WOTF 26) for bringing to my attention that there are eBook versions of WOTF26 available now (through the Kindle and the
iBookstore) and other versions (Sony et cetera)
coming shortly.
The news overall
comes in a negative context for Apple, which is defending itself against allegations by the government and had to defend the
iBookstore from a characterization as a failure, but it's still good news for the iBooks business, which looks to have a chance to grow even further as Apple delivers desktop support for its digital books via an iBooks application for Mac, shipping with the next release of OS X, 10.9 Mavericks, sometime this fall.
I also can't figure out why Amazon,
iBookstore, or Kobo haven't
come up with a BookBub alternative.
«It's not as sophisticated as an app to publish something in, for example, the
iBookstore, but the technology will either catch up with e-books or something else will
come along,» he said.
Apple has updated the iBooks app, now called iBooks 2, and with that
comes a whole new category on the
iBookstore for textbooks with material from the big publishers like McGraw - Hill and Pearson, as well as other authors who want to sell their textbooks and learning tools there.