When it comes to buying and selling books on the iPad, we’re about to witness a strange dance between those who make or sell electronic books and those who read them.
On April 3, when customers pick up their fancy new Apple iPads and want to purchase an e-book, they will have to decide which online bookstore they want to give their money to.
From the start, no one bookstore will come with an advantage: No matter which bookstore application iPad owners choose, they will have to download it first. Even the iBookstore, as Apple writes on its Web site, won’t come preloaded on the device. I Pad owners will be asked to “Download the iBooks app free from the App Store.”
There will also be a swarm of other booksellers to choose from.
Beh
When I subscribed to LISNews in my RSS reader, I figured, you know, there’d actually be stories about libraries. Instead, I have to slog through half a dozen posts each day about some Apple product, and another half dozen about eBooks. Apart from a few gits, nobody — in libraries our outside of them — is interested in spending 300 dollars for a reader and another 20 dollars for a 200kb file just in order to read a book.
I’m unsubscribing. See you.
Good riddance
We are posting all relevant stories about libraries. Ebook stories are important. Very large publishers are changing the entire price structure of books because of the iPad. Is it really a good idea for librarians to just play ostrich about this technology?
We are also not repeating stories about the iPad. Each story that was posted provided some new information that was not in prior stories.
I also don’t think LISNEWS is best filtered through an RSS reader. LISNEWS is something you have to take straight up.
Nobody
>Apart from a few gits, nobody — in libraries our outside of them — is interested in spending 300 dollars for a reader and another 20 dollars for a 200kb file just in order to read a book
Amazon has sold 3 million Kindles. That is one ebook reader. There is also the Sony and the Nook. There is also all the people that read ebooks on the iPod Touch, Blackberry, etc….
Yep, three million people is nobody.
smart move to not preload ebook store software
… remember how much microsoft had to pay in the browser wars…