I love the Apple ecosystem. It’s not perfect, and the gap between it and the Google alternative isn’t as great as it used to be, but to my mind it’s still by far the best solution for anyone looking ...

If you follow the ebook market you were likely stunned this June when Steve Jobs claimed to have captured 22% of the electronic book market overnight with the release of iBooks and iPad. Many of us ...

Remember back in June when Apple told developers the iBookstore had 22 percent of the eBook market? An author who uses both platforms to market his writing is now telling a vastly-different story. He ...

Enough time has gone by now to get a sense for what the iPad can handle. I’ve had time to digest its offerings from the higher-resolution screen to the nuances of having a full-screen map to ...

Amazon has a new tool for its Kindle Direct Publishing authors, via a new KDP EDU wing of the same aimed at educators and academic institutions. It’s called the Kindle Textbook Creator, and it lets ...

Before Apple released the first iPad, I doubted that I’d ever want to use it as my primary reading device. Compared to the Kindle, with its paper-like e-Ink technology and super light weight, I ...

Apple first released its iBooks Author Mac app for creating interactive textbooks for the iBooks Store back in 2012, and now Amazon is delivering its own textbook composing Mac app for publishing to ...

The iPad is a great device for reading. And there are a variety of apps focused solely on reading ebooks with the device—almost all of which work on the iPhone, too. So how do you judge a reading app?

Amazon’s Kindle book-reading technology has enjoyed some years of pre-eminence. But a study released today (Tuesday 7 October) shows Apple ’s rival iBook platform gaining ground. Conducted by ...

If you haven’t got an iPad, you’ve probably been depressed that iBooks isn’t available on your iPhone. As if that was going to last for long. Steve Jobs just announced iBooks support in iPhone OS 4.0.

The latest version of the eBook creator application Vellum does just about everything to streamline book creation for iBooks, Kindle and paperback, other than write the text itself. You know that ...

Enough time has gone by now to get a sense for what the iPad can handle. I’ve had time to digest its offerings from the higher-resolution screen to the nuances of having a full-screen map to ...