The Mac Observer

Competitors Size up Apple's iBooks Author
The Mac Observer
In January, Apple released a new OS X app called iBooks Author. It's designed to assist authors and publishers with the compilation of books, especially textbooks for Apple's iBooks 2.0 iOS app. But how does it stack up as an author's tool?

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Fast Company

Apple's iBooks Push Raises 6 Big Questions About The Future Of E-Publishing
Fast Company
Last week, Apple made headlines with iBooks 2.0 and iBooks Author, the company's next big moves into textbooks and self-publishing. When players like Apple go wading into the marketplace with game-changing announcements, there's a tendency to believe …
Apple announces new self-publishing software to howls of outrageMobyLives
Apple's iBook EULA exemplifies Everything that's wrong with Proprietary SoftwareFree Software Magazine
8 Obstacles That Ad-Supported E-Publishing Must OvercomeClickZ

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9 to 5 Mac

iBooks Author: An ebook publisher looks at Apple's textbook creation app
tuaw.com
Since we're familiar with the tools used to create documents for publishing on both the Amazon Kindle bookstore and iBookstore, we were both curious to see what Apple was going to announce on Thursday. The free creation tool, iBooks Author, …
iBooks Author EULA restrictions invite antitrust concernsArs Technica
Sencha embeds interactive CSS3 animations in iBook AuthorApple Insider
Apple Introduces iBook Textbook Publishing [News]MakeUseOf
ZDNet (blog) -9 to 5 Mac -International Business Times
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Daily Mail

Apple's struggle to defeat Amazon set to be exposed by European ebook inquiry
The Guardian
For book publishers, Christmas will come twice this year. After the festive trade in hardback tomes, the celebrations will begin again on Boxing Day, as the millions who got Kindles from Santa go online to stock them with reading material. …
eBooks Could cost More Than Printed If Publishers Get Their WaySmartHouse
Stop Treating $9.99 As The Magic E-Book PricepaidContent.org
Publishers Are Still Missing the Boat on E-book PricesBusinessWeek
Daily Mail -Publishers Weekly (blog) -The Morning Journal
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Daily Mail

Apple's struggle to defeat Amazon set to be exposed by European ebook inquiry
The Guardian
For book publishers, Christmas will come twice this year. After the festive trade in hardback tomes, the celebrations will begin again on Boxing Day, as the millions who got Kindles from Santa go online to stock them with reading material. …
eBooks Could cost More Than Printed If Publishers Get Their WaySmartHouse
Stop Treating $9.99 As The Magic E-Book PricepaidContent.org
Publishers Are Still Missing the Boat on E-book PricesBusinessWeek
Daily Mail -Publishers Weekly (blog) -The Morning Journal
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Daily Mail

Apple's struggle to defeat Amazon set to be exposed by European ebook inquiry
The Guardian
For book publishers, Christmas will come twice this year. After the festive trade in hardback tomes, the celebrations will begin again on Boxing Day, as the millions who got Kindles from Santa go online to stock them with reading material. …
eBooks Could cost More Than Printed If Publishers Get Their WaySmartHouse
Stop Treating $9.99 As The Magic E-Book PricepaidContent.org
Publishers Are Still Missing the Boat on E-book PricesBusinessWeek
Daily Mail -Publishers Weekly (blog) -The Morning Journal
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socalTech.com

iStoryTime Releases Apple's First Interactive iBook Title
Good E-Reader (blog)
This is Apple's first venture into the animation and interactive capabilities of EPUB3 for the iBook app for juvenile literature. EPUB3 was launched in May at the IDPF Digital Publishing Conference at BookExpo America to great fanfare based on the new …
zuuka Releases World's First Interactive iBook Five Little PumpkinsprMac (press release)
zuuka Releases World's First Interactive eBook 'Five Little Pumpkins'PR Web (press release)

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AppAdvice

IDW Publishing Takes Graphic Novels To Apple's iBooks Store
ComicsAlliance
IDW Publishing made its first major foray into Apple's iBooks store yesterday, releasing a combination of original graphic novels and collected editions of serialized comic book stories for a total of 19 initial offerings. The move makes IDW the first …
IDW brings graphic novels to the iBook storeComic Book Resources
IDW Publishing Announces Largest Collection of Comics for iBooksPadGadget

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News: Harry Potter Books Go Digital, Skip Apple's iBookstore
The Mac Observer
In Apple's iBook Store she would only get 70%. But for this to turn out a better deal for Rowling, she´ll have to make over 70% of the gross revenue she would have made, had the Potter books been in Apple's iBook store. I think that'll be very hard to …

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Apple's 30% tax: The long view
Fortune (blog)
If it disappears it is a clear signal that Apple is hurting it's platform more than it's helping iBooks. Device sales matter more than the iBook sales… @PED – I'm very disappointed in you. It is dishonest to misrepresent Apple's retail margin as a …

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