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Apple adds social-media sharing to iBooks

Although most of the social-media buzz around Apple's product launch today focused on the new iPad Mini, the tech giant's ebooks program received a facelift, too. The new version of iBooks supports 40 languages, continuous ... Read More »

October 23, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Book links roundup: World Book Day, Apple launches comics iBookstore section, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

UNESCO celebrates reading, writers, and illustrators with World Book Day Apple launches comics and graphic novel section in the iBookstore Acorn media to control Agatha Christie's literary estate The rise of little libraries, DIY reading ... Read More »

March 1, 2012 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Apple shakes up textbook publishing

By Sue Carter

Rumours of Apple's entry into the digital textbook market were confirmed this morning with the announcement of iBooks 2. The latest version of Apple's e-reading platform focuses on media-rich, interactive digital textbooks designed for the ... Read More »

January 19, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Book links round-up: Sarah Palin is not one of the Common people, Random House U.K. signs to agency model, and more

By Sue Carter

Sarah Palin creates outrage over the White House inviting rapper Common to its Evening of Poetry Random House U.K. signs to agency model, with over 6,000 titles to appear in the iBookstore E-bookseller iFlow shuts ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up: Stieg Larsson big in digital; new iPhone to include iBookstore; and more

By Scott MacDonald

News to round out your week with: Almost 30% of first-week sales of Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest are e-books A refreshingly candid response to The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 ... Read More »

June 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up: Yann Martel needs saving; Chuck Palahniuk takes beating; and more

By Scott MacDonald

The wheels of the news bus go 'round and 'round: Yann Martel's U.S. publishers beg indie booksellers to save them Octopus Books USA to close "I Am Chuck Palahniuk's New Novel" (or, "Palahniuk Takes a ... Read More »

May 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up, April 9

By Scott MacDonald

Some links to wind up the week: Oprah may bring books back iBooks come to iPhone Is the Library of America running out of writers? iPad now one step closer to heaven Newly discovered: Kipling's ... Read More »

April 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: iBooks

Apple adds social-media sharing to iBooks

Book links roundup: World Book Day, Apple launches comics iBookstore section, and more

Apple shakes up textbook publishing

Book links round-up: Sarah Palin is not one of the Common people, Random House U.K. signs to agency model, and more

Daily book biz round-up: Stieg Larsson big in digital; new iPhone to include iBookstore; and more

Daily book biz round-up: Yann Martel needs saving; Chuck Palahniuk takes beating; and more

Daily book biz round-up, April 9

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