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Originally Posted by WillAdams
My concern w/ making new-style books is what will the file format be?
Can't be ePub --- too limiting, unless I'm missing something in it?
So presumably, every new-fangled such book will be an app --- is Apple going to set aside a special area on the App store for books as apps, or will one have to sort them out from all the other apps?
Or is there some third possibility I'm missing? (Each such book vendor will create an app to read their books and there'll be a myriad of incompatible proprietary formats?)
William
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During the iPad presentation Steve Jobs said the format for the books will be epub. That will not stop people making standalone applications and I am guessing there will be DRM though Jobs has a dislike of DRM.
There will be a separate section for books.
Even though I said the unit has a 10 hour life whilst playing video the one thing we do not know is how many of those hours is the backlight alone. The backlight will consume a set amount of power. There are currently controls to adjust backlight brightness. I do not expect anywhere near the time I get on my BeBook.
The only thing that is making me wait is I like the e-ink screens and the 10" iRex is very tempting. Here in Australia the price is $1600.00 so an iPad will be cheaper than that.