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Originally Posted by stonetools
I could see Apple offering an iPad with a Retina display, and then offering better formatted e-books that would take advantage of the better display. It would be something with a WOW factor-something that we don't know we want yet. We'll see if they have something for us in a few days.
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Unfortunately, any WOW factor will probably be more of a gimmick than anything else. As it is, one of my main gripes with iBooks is you can't disable the page turn animations. A lot of ebook reader apps enable display customization (e.g. colors, night mode, background images, etc) and have a host of other features that there's not really much that Apple can do that's totally new. Page syncing, Amazon has had way before Apple and I think that's one of the more useful features. Kobo has all these social stuff on their reader (I think B&N, too) and Amazon has Xray.