Amazon Kindle, meet your Voldemort. iPad has an ebook store and it’s called “iBooks”. Picture of the store interface after the jump. Publishers include Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette – the big boys.
Doesn’t look like books will be cheap, but there should be a healthy price war soon. The example book was $US15.
On the plus side, Apple is using ePub, which means books from other stores could work.
Ian Galbraith
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 2:11 PMDue to the whole eye strain issue iPads should not be used as dedicated ebook readers.