09-02-2010, 11:30 AM | #1 |
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This can only be good news for us.
Steve Jobs Counts 35 Million eBook Downloads
The more readers out there the better. The more that publishers see people downloading ebooks the better. |
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It is interesting to see those numbers in comparison to the rest of the iTunes media he mentioned: Quote:
almost half of those were sold in the last 18 months, and without DRM (Apple removed it from music in Jan. 2009) |
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09-02-2010, 11:46 AM | #3 |
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If that's just from Apple I can only guess what Amazon and the other major book sellers are doing. Definitely some good news for ebook readers.
Now I'm just waiting for the next Apple press conference to see Steve wearing the Flash=Evil shirt. |
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this is AWESOME news!
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Look at it this way: there are probably far more pages there than songs.
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BTW, that refers to downloads not sales. Apple is playing word games it seems. |
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This is a very small number.
Apple has sold 40 million iPhones, 14 million iPads, and some millions of iPod touches. If you download the iBooks app, you can also download a free copy of "Alice in Wonderland." I did when I installed iBooks on my iPhone. So it would be interesting to know, of the 35 million downloads, how many were "Alice in Wonderland?" (Note that Apple did not say "sales"). |
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02-22-2011, 11:24 PM | #9 |
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Can someone explain to me what Steve Job's deal is regarding Flash? Did Flash steal Job's high school girlfriend or tell him that black turtlenecks look silly? What horrible thing did Flash do to inspire such hate? |
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02-23-2011, 01:41 AM | #13 |
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I think some guy in a trench coat flashed him when he was a kid and scarred him for life.
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02-23-2011, 01:45 AM | #14 |
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Please, for goodness sakes, stop the geographic restriction madness, publishers!
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02-23-2011, 02:36 AM | #15 |
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Really? OK, long version here:-
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Short version; Apple/Jobs doesn't want core parts of the iOS 'experience' to be reliant on proprietary software controlled by another party - who would? That Flash was a buggy crashy battery-draining resource hog helped make the case against it, but it was always about control of the platform, and a move towards 'open standards' e.g. HTML5. There's history here - Apple had its legs cut out from under it in the 90s when Adobe made a tough business decision and switched to Windows as its prime development platform; from that point on MacOS versions of Adobe software always lagged behind Windows, critical to Apple as Adobe software fuelled their core markets of graphics and design. Apple very nearly went under (this is around about the time that Michael Dell made his now infamous quote about 'shutting Apple down and giving the money back to the shareholders') and a cash injection from MicroSoft (who were having their own issues with the DOJ at the time) was hugely influential in Apple staying afloat. Enter the iMac, fast-forward a dozen years or so, and here we are... HTH Pete |
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