Tag: Books
The state of Apple’s ecosystem lock-in, and where we’re at today
Every couple of months articles crop up on the Internet calling Apple’s ecosystem a “walled garden” or a “golden cage” (1, 2, 3). These articles...
Potential effects of digital textbook distribution, some thoughts
The upcoming Apple press event scheduled for this Thursday is rumored to bring a new way to author, distribute and read textbooks. Picking up on a ZDNet article,...
O’Reilly brings books to the iBookstore
Finally, major book publishers are starting to figure out that their books should be in the iBookstore and not the App Store. If there’s one...
Amazon Kindle app now comes with cheat sheets and landscape view
Amazon has rolled out an update to their iOS application today. Along with being able to view the books in portrait mode, you’re now able...
Amazon set to take on Apple’s ebook app by releasing OS X software.
It’s a happy day today for competition. Today, the largest e-book vendor on the market has announced that they’re going to be releasing an application...
Housekeeping: We’re gonna be reviewing some print material in the near future.
We’ve been doing some thinking about ways to expand our article base a little, and we eventually decided that it would make sense to add...