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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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There are a couple of problems with the iPad as an e-reader. The first is that it sucks to read on as compared to e-ink. This may be less of an issue when an iPad with a higher resolution screen comes out...but right now it's inferior except for special cases, like reading at night when you can't turn a light on.
The iPad's ability to read multiple formats is nice because I can use the kindle app and have it sync with my Kindle. But I haven't used the iPad to buy iBooks or Nookbooks or other Epub books because I would then be left with a collection of different files in different formats with different DRM schemes that I could only read on my iPad.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
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.
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Those are pretty minor changes. As I said above, I don't think that the iPad can do much with iBooks until it gets a better screen. And that may not be enough. Although I don't think that Apple really cares *that* much about books.