Tag: IBOOKS STORE

You might have noticed something missing from the iBooks announcement yesterday -- McGraw Hill. Mere hours before the Apple event, the publishing company's CEO, Terry McGraw, went on CNBC and let it slip that there would indeed be a tablet, and that his company had worked closely with Apple to bring its collection of text books and other educational publications to the iPad. Yet, when Apple ...

Apple is never one to sit on the sidelines of any market niche for too long, so it's no surprise that it envisions the iPad as not just a Web-browsing device or over-sized iPod touch, but as an entry into the over-saturated e-book reader market, as well. To that end, Apple has unveiled the iBooks Store, a "print " media companion to the iTunes store loaded with publications from Harper Collins, ...