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By: The iPad, Transmedia, and the Future of Publishers / Free Verse Media

The iPad, Transmedia, and the Future of Publishers / Free Verse Media — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:22:37 +0000

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By: jason

jason — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:19:06 +0000

without eInk, I will always go for the Kindle. I’ve tried reading on backlit screens before and while surfing the net is ok, reading a book just hurts the eyes to much.

As for the Kindle only being for Amazon books, I have over 100 books and only about 10 have been bought from Amazon. The kindle is an excellent eBook reader even without the kindle store. It’s so easy to load pdf’s and books from other stores. Check out Calibre, an excellent eBook manager and converter for OSX and Windows. 1 click upload to Kindle and one click convert. It doesn’t get any easier.

cheers

By: Viqi French

Viqi French — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:02:03 +0000

Stellar roundup of iPad reviews!

I suppose “peer pressure” has me on the brink of going iPad. But I suspect I’d miss a few key features; it would feel like I’ve sacrificed some time-savers I’d never stop missing.

I’ll try to sit this one out, maybe get the next generation?

By: Ryan Chapman

Ryan Chapman — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:29:03 +0000

Nice iPad reviews roundup by @digibookworld http://is.gd/biMfu

By: Ryan Chapman

Ryan Chapman — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:45:32 +0000

Rebecca’s and Andy Ihnatko’s points are salient here: the Kindle is for Amazon ebooks, the iPad’s for everyone’s ebooks. It’s also brainlessly easy adding my own epub files into iBooks. Now, if you’re worried about remembering which ebook you’ve purchased is associated with which app on your iPad, then you probably shouldn’t buy DRMed content. But that’s a discussion for another day.

It’s easy to see how the dedicated ereaders would fill one niche and the iPad another. Let’s face it: the Kindle is for large-print readers. I don’t buy the “avid readers” argument, especially when Amazon keeps their curtains drawn about actual numbers. I can’t remember if it was Verso’s survey or Bowker’s, but in one of them the customers reported their #1 favorite feature wasn’t discoverability, or cost, or any of that. It was adjusting font size.

I see the iPad and the readers who purchased it as a different segment. I’m eager to see what tops the paid iBooks charts as an early indicator. Note that so far, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” is #1. It’s #118 in the Kindle store, and #6 on the NYT Bestseller list.

By: Rebecca Maines

Rebecca Maines — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:50:43 +0000

Although right now the market for the iPad is the early adopter, I foresee this over time becoming the device of choice for media consumption for people who don’t really care much about computers but want a portable, space-saving, easy way to enjoy whatever media they prefer. Some of those people–the hardcore ereaders Guy mentions above–buy Kindles. But the less hardcore may not buy a Kindle or nook or Sony ereader or whatever because that’s a lot of money for a device that does just one thing. But if they could read books, magazines, and comic books; watch TV shows and movies; listen to music; get online; and do other entertainment-related things via apps (e.g., keep score at a baseball game with iScore), dropping a few hundred bucks might be more appealing. Especially as the price goes down, as it always does over time.

As an ereading device, yeah, pluses and minuses, but one plus that I’ve not heard much mention of is that although you’re tied to the iBooks store for the iBook app, you’re not tied to iBooks overall: you can use the Kindle ereader or the B&N ereader or Kobo or Stanza or whatever on the iPad. So if you’re already invested in one (or more) of those, you’re not abandoning that content. You can go back and forth. (I’m trying to do a side-by-side comparison of the various readers on the iPad, although I think that will wait a week or two as iPad versions of some of those are still in the works, rather than doing an apples-to-oranges comparison of iPad versions and iPhone versions on the iPad.)

By: Gianfranco Ceci

Gianfranco Ceci — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:57:05 +0000

In Giugno sarò in Italia e vorrei comprare un iPad,essenzialmente da usare per leggere libri,per usare e-mail e leggere i quotidiani.Potreste indicarmi dove potrei trovare in Internet un manuale esplicativo di tutte le sue potenzialità ? Grazie

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By: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:35:56 +0000

Kindle is for the hardcore ereader, iPad will be for the casual ereader. Either way, Amazon likely wins as they have the customer base and inventory already, and there’s no competing on price any more. As long as they don’t botch their iPad app, it makes more sense to continue buying through them as opposed to the iBookstore whose eBooks will be limited to the iPad.