Aggregators—people or companies who gather material into a whole for another purpose, or as representatives of all the parts of the whole—are in new prominence. Particularly with Apple’s iBookstore, a new retail location of incredible potential. But who will sell to the iBookstore? For independent publishers and small presses, Apple has anointed eight companies as […]
iPad’s ePub: The “Book” of the Future?
A few weeks ago Smashwords made it possible to get self-published books into Apple’s iBookstore for sale on the iPad, and from what I read there are already several thousand Smashwords titles in the iBookstore. Some of Apple’s approved content aggregators have also put out mechanisms for making contact with content creators and rights holders. […]
iPad, iBookstore, iBooks, iAnticipation
With bated breath we await the arrival in a few days of the Apple iPad. This new tablet computer may—or may not—deliver an entirely new model of eBook distribution, finally clearing a path to the future from the jungle of confusion publishers and retailers seem to be in at the moment. Apple will supply a […]