Apple may not be ready to announce its iPad 3 or iHDTV yet. But the company could announce a new platform for digital textbooks at its upcoming education event. Apple was not always as serious about the e-book business as it is today. The digital textbook market can be quite lucrative. Sources close to the [...]

We all remember how Steve Jobs used to make fun of e-readers in the past. He was confident at the time that people didn’t read anymore. Research has shown that many Kindle and iPad owner spend a good amount of time on their devices to read e-books. Of course, not everyone likes to read long [...]

The cat is finally out of the bag. We have known for some time that Apple was aiming to go after content publishers to get its 30% cut of their revenue. This sounded like a very aggressive move that could have major ramifications for all parties involved. Apple has decided to pull the trigger on [...]

Trying to get any information out of Amazon or Apple on the number of e-books they are selling can be difficult at times. There is always a lot of guesswork involved (one would not want to go with Steve Job’s or Jeff Bezos’ guesstimates). But could it be that iBooks is not as successful as [...]