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Tag: iPad

Apple’s Steamroller Advances

The Great and Powerful Jeff Bezos and his Kindle team at Amazon.com continue to do whatever they can in hopes of staunching the excitement over the next generation of Apple iPads. Rumor has it the second generation of the same 9.7-inch form factor will be released in the first quarter next year. A fully-functional computer, […]

Admitting is the First Step to Recovery

The publishing world continues to be as shaken as the Pope on his recent trip to England. The difference between that situation and the publishing world is that in the United Kingdom, citizens are avoiding the pews, and they don’t look likely to return to their former numbers in our lifetimes. With publishing, illicit sex […]

The New Dawn of Comics

Although I hung up my comics collecting before junior high, there’s been some very interesting buzz about the future of the business. BusinessWeek ran this story about an early iPad adopting publishing subgenre: comic book publishers. Disney-owned Marvel let loose their comic book application at the launch of the iPad. It enables sales of 500 […]

iBooks Application Available

Weighing in at 18.1 megabytes, Apple’s iBooks application is now available for download to use on the iPad. It’s users’ gateway to the iBookstore, where readers can purchase books and periodicals. Aside from most Americans essentially being unable to read anything longer than what can fit on a milk carton, can anyone explain why iBooks […]

Steve Jobs Changes the World Again

Despite all the iPad hype, very quietly, Jobs has done it again. When it comes to writers, we have much to be thankful for regarding Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs. Famously, his vision and ability to identify quality enabled him to observe computer interface developments created at Xerox PARC. He built his own, superior version […]