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China shuts down Apple’s iTunes Movie and iBooks stores with no explanation
The LA Times and New York Times, among other news sources, report that Apple’s iBooks and iTunes Movie services were suspended in China last week, just seven months after they launched.An explanation...
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Trade up after 3 years? Even 6-year-old iOS devices still read e-books
How long will you hold onto your iPad or iPhone? Will it matter how old it is if it still does everything you want it to, such as reading e-books? Or will you trade up to something newer and...
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All major e-book stores run one-day sale on the same 14 e-books
The Kindle app on my Android phone just pinged me that Amazon is running a Gold Box special on 14 popular Kindle e-books today. The available titles include The Martian by Andy Weir (which we’ve...
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Apple iPhone sales decline: What this means for your ebook future
The reports of Apple’s death may be greatly exaggerated. But business press headline writers are already penning gloomy prognostications off its second quarter earnings statements, most of all because...
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China’s iBooks shutdown helps push Icahn out of Apple
CNBC ran a widely reported audio interview on its Power Lunch program with Carl Icahn in which the billionaire activist investor shared the news that: “We no longer have a position in Apple.” And Icahn...
View ArticleThe Future of Books: VR, Augmented Reality, Self-Driving Cars and More
Ebook sales for “traditional publishers” seem to have hit a plateau. In the latest quarterly report from Simon & Schuster, for example, digital sales (including digital audio) fell approximately 10...
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Whoever feels like innovating e-books, please raise your hand!
Why isn’t anyone innovating in the e-book market? More importantly, is there any reason why anyone should innovate? Jason Illian, founder and CEO of Bookshout!, poses the former question in a blog post...
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Could Apple app subscription model portend changes to e-book royalties?
Michael W. Perry called my attention to an interesting pair of articles dealing with some newly-announced changes to Apple’s iTunes app developer model—one on the Verge and one on MacNN. The most...
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iBooks Editions: Too little, too late?
Earlier today, I noted the complete absence of e-book-related announcements from the WWDC keynote. On The Digital Reader, Nate Hoffelder called my attention to an iBooks-related announcement elsewhere....
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iOS 10 bids farewell to unwanted apps and older hardware
Here are a couple more changes that were announced to the new version of iOS at WWDC. First of all, it will finally permit uninstalling most built-in default apps if you don’t personally want them...
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