Jan 03, 2012
On the Eight Day of Christmas: Apple iBooks Rumors
By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 7:09 AM
Right on cue, the January Apple Rumor Season has begun on the first quasi-back-to-work day after Christmas and New Year's. Today, various sources have been reporting rumors of an impending Apple media event. The interesting twist to the rumor is that it will focus not on new iPads, but on the iBooks bookstore.
What might Apple be up to with iBooks that is worthy of its own event? Given that the Kindle store is often cheaper, has a larger selection, and, unlike iBooks, (ironically) allows me to read books on my Mac in addition to my iPad, I've always found iBooks to be a non-starter. Maybe that will change?
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Re: On the Eight Day of Christmas: Apple iBooks Rumors
Heh. iBooks is a PDF viewer. I love how easily I can save PDF from Safari and have it sync’ed with my laptop. That’s about all it does for me. I’m not sure what else it would do unless they’re announcing it’s merging with the useless newsstand app or the Kindle store.
Re: On the Eight Day of Christmas: Apple iBooks Rumors
Yeah, I think they will have a hard time convincing people to skip the Kindle store and use iBooks instead. I’d be curious to see numbers, but I bet that most iPad ebook users go with Kindle…