DC Comics has literally doubled its digital comics sales over the past year, and the publisher is going all in on digital platforms like Kindle, iTunes, and Nook by offering individual episodes for download. DC Comics claims this makes it the only major comic publisher to offer its weekly comics on all the major tablet and reader platforms. These issues were [...]
It’s been five years since J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel was released, and in that time the author has dedicated herself to writing her first widespread work of grown-up literature. That work — titled The Casual Vacancy — arrived this week to a mixture of positive and lukewarm reviews and somewhat sluggish sales. It’s no Harry Potter book launch, no, but [...]
Apple has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Government Printing Office to make federal ebooks available on iTunes. With deal with Apple may be new, but you can buy ebooks from the government publisher on most other ereader platforms, including Google and Barnes & Noble. It’s great that the government is making more of its materials available. For instance, [...]
Wilco has released a free, multimedia iBook called The Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago. The new merchandise, available only for the iPad, contains behind-the-scenes goodies from the band’s tour of their home town in December. The iBook contains posters, photos, setlists, and more from the five performances Wilco gave in Chicago late last year. It also has two backstage video [...]
According to The Chicago Tribune, several Chicago-area school districts have begun replacing paper textbooks with iPads for some of their students — early indication of a growing trend. The school districts have chosen to go with iPads in part because Apple recently announced deals with textbook publishers to cap prices on digital copies sold over Apple’s iBooks store at just $14.99 [...]
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