Every so often a pundit makes the prediction that _this_ will be the year that Apple gets interested in iBooks (and, for example, launch iBooks apps for...Continue reading
Earlier this week the IDPF and the W3C announced the formal completion of their merger. Subsuming the second-most important ebook standards organization(*) into the W3C will...Continue reading
A security researcher revealed this week that Amazon and other ebook retailers had neglected to patch a fifteen-year-old XML security flaw. From The Register: The similar but...Continue reading
Yesterday Apple published its annual Best of 2016 lists for iTunes and iBooks, naming If I was Your Girl and Behind Closed Doors as two of the...Continue reading
Apple is well-known for raising the most ridiculous objections to content sold through its service. It has blocked apps in iTunes for simply mentioning an associated...Continue reading
Apple has just launched that new iBooks app which showed up in Apple’s trademark filings a couple months back. iBooks StoryTime is a tvOS app which displays children’s...Continue reading
Apple rolled out a new update this week for its ebook-making app for the Mac. I am still waiting to hear back from users, but according...Continue reading
Apple has Twitter accounts for iBooks and Apple News, and now they’re expanding onto Instagram. Over the weekend Apple launched an Instagram account for iBooks The...Continue reading
Aside from the news that the iOS Ten beta would let you remove Apple’s spam apps including iBooks, there wasn’t much in the way of ebook...Continue reading
Apple’s online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing, particularly for foreign firms....Continue reading
So The Bookseller has drunk the Kool-Aid and joined the school of thought that thinks it would be great if Apple got serious about the ebook...Continue reading
Apple’s new cloud-syncing option for iBooks is one of the more highly anticipated features in iOS 9.3, but there is a surprising lack of technical info...Continue reading
With the new year less than two weeks old, many pundits are posting their predictions on what we’ll see in the coming year, and that includes...Continue reading
With the year coming to a close, the major book and ebook retailers have started posting their “best of” lists. Barnes & Noble, for example, took...Continue reading
Anyone who uses online services is used to periodic outages, but lately Apple has been having more than its fair share. Apple Insider reported this morning...Continue reading