Apple acquires Prss, a company that builds tools for iPad magazine creation
Apple has purchased Prss, a Dutch company that produced browser-based tools for making iPad magazines. It looks as if the Prss service will be shut down.
Want to publish an ebook for iOS? Surprising tips from iPad publisher Open Air
iPad publisher Open Air sells 10 to 30 times as many books through Apple’s App Store as it does through the iBookstore. Here, Open Air CEO Jon Feldman shares some lessons he’s learned from publishing books for iOS.
Inkling makes its Google-friendly digital publishing tools free to everyone
Starting Tuesday, Inkling is making its free digital publishing platform, Habitat, available to everyone. The company is also introducing an enterprise product, with publishers including Pearson and Wolters-Kluwer as launch clients.
Apple releases iBooks 3, expands to more countries
At Apple’s iPad Mini launch event in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company also announced updates to its e-reading platform, iBooks. In addition, Apple is reportedly expanding the iBookstore to 18 more countries, including many in Latin America.
Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform — From Inkling, Not Apple
Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a…
Apple Clarifies: We Don’t Own The Content You Put Into iBooks Author
When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works c…
Comic creator’s iBooks Author experiment nets 10,000 downloads in 3 days
Apple’s iBooks Author impressed Diesel Sweeties creator and artist R Stevens so much that he created an e-book with it during the course of a weekend and distributed it free to readers. On Thursday, Stevens shared some interesting details about that experiment.
Webcomic artist experiments with iBooks Author-created monthly archive
R Stevens, an independent web comic creator who pens Diesel Sweeties, has already created an iBooks edition of his most recent monthly archive that’s available free to read on the iPad. It shows a side of the tool that could catch on with independent artists and creators.
iBooks Author Rules: Audacious, No Big Deal Or Sign Of Wars To Come?
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) didn’t mention this at the Guggenheim yesterday, but post-event the complaints are spreading across the Internet: Accordi…
McGraw-Hill is Apple partner, but still has questions about iBooks
In talking with an executive from Apple iBooks partner McGraw-Hill, it’s clear the company has high hopes but also concerns about maintaining consistently high-quality textbooks that are published with iBooks Author. Here are some of the most interesting points from our conversation.