http://www.apple.com/au/ipad/features/
"One of the selling points of the device, iBooks, which allows users
to access an array of e-books and digital textbooks, is not listed as
a feature on the iPad page on Apple Australia's website.
This indicates it will not be available to Australian users when the
device is launched here in March. A note on the US site says iBooks is
"available in the U.S. only"."
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On 28/01/2010, at 1:32 PM, Rod <l...@mac.com> wrote:
As soon as the distribution rights are sorted with books (and what a
minefield that will be!!), I can see schools such as PLC ditching
laptops altogether and going for ipads and the keyboard adapter
kit. Ditching hefty textbooks will be a boon for kids with sore
backs!
Watch the explosion of educational software come out.....great time
to be a cocoa developer :-)
Seeya
Rod :-)
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On 28/01/2010, at 1:13 PM, Chris Griffiths <des...@visualm.com.au>
wrote:
Mmm… not sure.
I guess I wasn't talking about the romantic young couple. Yes, I
can see the need for the butter stained romantic hard bound book.
You could always use a stained digital background on your iPad ;)
I was talking about the commercial books; your paperbacks, your
business books & especially your student text books (90% of the
books sold in the newsagency). Not to mention the newspapers and
mags.
Also, technology accelerates. Yes, it will be an interesting future.
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On 28/01/2010, at 12:55 PM, Mark Secker wrote:
I can people using products such as these to replace magazines,
periodicals and factual repository books (dictionaries/
encyclopedias etc)... Our “normal computers, both desktop and la
ptop have already been doing this over the last 15 years...
Project Gutenberg and Google books along with ewer devices like
the iPhone & touch and Kindle and now the iPad will accelerate
this...
But... Don’t look at books dying not in our lifetime, probably
not even in the long term future....
There is a very visceral connection with books that no hand held
device will emulate.
Try imagine a young couple punting down the river Cam reading
Wordsworth, Byron and Keats from their Kindle ...
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her f.. OH! FUDGE!!... Batteries gone
and snuffed it already
And “ an iPad stained with butter drips from crumpets" just d
oesn’t strike me as a memorable quote
Maybe in 10 years time you won’t see magazines for sale, nor th
e airport lounge pulp fiction paperbacks.
Maybe in 20 years books will return to being the rare “prestige
product” that they once were, with only the “classics”, both
modern and old, will be put to press.. and hard bound.. Ready to
soak up butter drips from crumpets.
On 28/01/10 11:12 AM, "Chris Griffiths" <des...@visualm.com.au>
wrote:
I agree with you Paul.
It won't be long before traditional print will be a rarity
especially with the protests around chopping down forests and
greenhouse warming.
Offset print will decline rapidly. I have even seen it in the
last few years. Printers that were running 24hrs a day are now
running the presses a lot less and some have even stopped some
presses. Now if you know about these presses you know how much it
costs to stop and start them!
Yes, maybe we will have a paperless society sooner than we think.
Especially when we have the advent of the iPad and obviously
other pads.
Regards Chris Griffiths
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On 28/01/2010, at 10:54 AM, Paul Weaver wrote:
I suspect that for developed countries there is a very good
chance that the iPad and Apple’s enormous marketing strength
is finally going to radically change media distribution for
books, magazines, newspapers and movies. It’s been a techno
logical change predicted for a while, but this brilliant inv
ention will do the trick. Most cinemas and regular bookshops
, even in this remote neck of the woods are probably doomed,
same with video rental outlets. Print newspapers which unde
restimate the potential of the new technology will surely fa
il. I’m thinking it might take less than five years. The int
roduction of the iPad is a seminal event.
Paul. ;)
Dr Paul R. Weaver
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