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Originally Posted by covfam
because what makes the ipod/ipads such good readers is not the Ibooks app. its the fact that i can read my books from Amazon,B&N,Kobo,Sony,Ibooks and another 5-10 reader apps. imho people who look at ibooks as the only source of reading material/apps are seriously short changing themselves.
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Word. I also think that Apple has been focusing on stuff other than the IBook store till recently. It was really focused much more on magazines and periodicals, as well as its main business, which is hardware.
After ios5 is out, I think we will begin to see it make moves on the iBookstore front, if only to challenge Amazon. Remember, its sitting on 76 BILLION dollars in cash. Apple can do just about anything it wants to do to build up iBooks.
I've already started to see some stirrings.
*iBooks is on Twitter
* Its responded to Kindle Singles with its own version-Quick Reads
* It has rolled out a version of ePub which is better at displaying graphic content.
This is pretty small beer , but it shows that Apple is beginning to focus on iBooks. It would be interesting to see if Apple could bring something fresh to the ebook experience that would enable it to challenge Amazon. October 4 just became even more exciting.
In the end, though, what covfam said.