Comments on: Could an Apple iTablet be a Kindle e-Book and e-Comic Killer? http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/ More of everything iPhone and iPad Sat, 26 May 2012 18:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Hua http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-685660 David Hua Mon, 14 May 2012 10:08:42 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-685660 <p>I like the helpful information you provide in your articles. I will bookmark your blog and check again here regularly. One more thing,introduce my live cameras website:<a href="http://www.inurl-view-index-shtml.net" rel="nofollow">inurl /view/index.shtml</a> to you, it's interesting.</p> I like the helpful information you provide in your articles. I will bookmark your blog and check again here regularly. One more thing,introduce my live cameras website:inurl /view/index.shtml to you, it's interesting.

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]]> By: Jody Piros http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-112000 Jody Piros Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:22:43 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-112000 <p>I had my kindle dx delivered last week. And just wanted to say I am so happy! :o). I did some research on aol and also asked my collegues for feedback. Finally bought it from <a href="http://amazonkindledeals.com/store/" rel="nofollow">Kindle Store</a>. They had a discount coupon and I got $25 off. I am so happy with it after having downloaded digital media from Amazon - all of them were free! I just love it!</p> I had my kindle dx delivered last week. And just wanted to say I am so happy! :o ). I did some research on aol and also asked my collegues for feedback. Finally bought it from Kindle Store. They had a discount coupon and I got $25 off. I am so happy with it after having downloaded digital media from Amazon - all of them were free! I just love it!

]]> By: robinson http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-34900 robinson Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:08:55 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-34900 <p>Sign me up! I'd like one, too. OUr newspaper subscription just rose to $240 (with gratuity for carrier). At that amount of $$, an ebook/web surfing/email device for $500-700 looks real sweet. It'd be a 3-year payback and have so much more utility!</p> Sign me up! I'd like one, too. OUr newspaper subscription just rose to $240 (with gratuity for carrier). At that amount of $$, an ebook/web surfing/email device for $500-700 looks real sweet. It'd be a 3-year payback and have so much more utility!

]]> By: TK http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-34314 TK Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:53:17 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-34314 <p>I would want one for sure. I don't really think that Sony or Amazon have products that are usable for me. Number 1 thing is size, get a least full pages screen size. Number 2 all of these newspapers are getting hit with lower subscription numbers and they are complaining how nobody wants to pay for their content, just use ebook readers that work well and make it easy to get content. I'm planing on buying an ebook reader, just hoping maybe apple will come up with iPhone type device for ebooks.</p> I would want one for sure. I don't really think that Sony or Amazon have products that are usable for me. Number 1 thing is size, get a least full pages screen size. Number 2 all of these newspapers are getting hit with lower subscription numbers and they are complaining how nobody wants to pay for their content, just use ebook readers that work well and make it easy to get content. I'm planing on buying an ebook reader, just hoping maybe apple will come up with iPhone type device for ebooks.

]]> By: Graham D. http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-34055 Graham D. Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:34:47 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-34055 <p>@Loz - good recovery with that second post! :D</p> <p>Things get interesting... I'm a UK user - and i'm due for an upgrade in days! I've been waiting to get an iphone since last year (contracts GRRR!) - but now i'm waiting for the next one to come outsimply because I don't wanna have an iphone thats outdated for 15 months of my 18 month contract.</p> <p>I'm not a reader normally - but if its on one of my beloved gadgets then i may be tempted to do it a little more. That said - with the rest of the apps and tools it coems with etc... i may be a little bit preoccupied!</p> @Loz - good recovery with that second post! :D

Things get interesting... I'm a UK user - and i'm due for an upgrade in days! I've been waiting to get an iphone since last year (contracts GRRR!) - but now i'm waiting for the next one to come outsimply because I don't wanna have an iphone thats outdated for 15 months of my 18 month contract.

I'm not a reader normally - but if its on one of my beloved gadgets then i may be tempted to do it a little more. That said - with the rest of the apps and tools it coems with etc... i may be a little bit preoccupied!

]]> By: Manuel R. Ciosici http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-34016 Manuel R. Ciosici Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:26:28 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-34016 <p>Sean, Hakala and Benoit Cerrina have a point. But if I were to launch a giant bookstore I would also make sure that in my bookstore I have thousands of free, out of copyright books, and so that my competitors don't say I'm piggybacking on projects Gutenberg and atchive.org I would also help digitise a few thousands books. This way, I would have shut up the competition and also gained another great weapon for the marketing department.</p> Sean, Hakala and Benoit Cerrina have a point. But if I were to launch a giant bookstore I would also make sure that in my bookstore I have thousands of free, out of copyright books, and so that my competitors don't say I'm piggybacking on projects Gutenberg and atchive.org I would also help digitise a few thousands books. This way, I would have shut up the competition and also gained another great weapon for the marketing department.

]]> By: Benoit Cerrina http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-34011 Benoit Cerrina Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:48:59 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-34011 <p>With Hakala and Sean, the idead of an ebook distributor scanning books is ridiculous. To publish an ebook they need the authorization from the copyright holder and they would have the book in electronic format already or they wouldn't have been able to publish it! The only people scanning actual recent books to make ebooks are pirates. It does make sense to scan old out of print books which were never in electronic format but we are talking really old there.</p> With Hakala and Sean, the idead of an ebook distributor scanning books is ridiculous. To publish an ebook they need the authorization from the copyright holder and they would have the book in electronic format already or they wouldn't have been able to publish it! The only people scanning actual recent books to make ebooks are pirates. It does make sense to scan old out of print books which were never in electronic format but we are talking really old there.

]]> By: Hakala http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-34010 Hakala Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:37:36 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-34010 <p>Sean does make an excellant point though, why would apple copy the books, when most likely they would, again as sean said, contract it out. Or else have the publishers do it.</p> Sean does make an excellant point though, why would apple copy the books, when most likely they would, again as sean said, contract it out. Or else have the publishers do it.

]]> By: Hakala http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-34009 Hakala Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:34:48 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-34009 <p>Apple is a predictable but unpredictable company. They very well could be making e-books. Or it could be a complete rumor. Only apple knows. All we can do is wait until the end of march. Who knows, maybe it will be announced earlier!</p> Apple is a predictable but unpredictable company. They very well could be making e-books. Or it could be a complete rumor. Only apple knows. All we can do is wait until the end of march. Who knows, maybe it will be announced earlier!

]]> By: Sean peters http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-33989 Sean peters Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:28:24 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-33989 <p>I think it's highly unlikely that Apple would scan huge numbers of books themselves - they're not in the book scanning business. That task would be contracted out. And even that assumes that the books NEED to be scanned - surely you'd need to have the publishers onboard, and they'd already have the books in electronic format. Paying folks to stand around in front of a scanner to manually scan all those books would be prohibitively expensive.</p> I think it's highly unlikely that Apple would scan huge numbers of books themselves - they're not in the book scanning business. That task would be contracted out. And even that assumes that the books NEED to be scanned - surely you'd need to have the publishers onboard, and they'd already have the books in electronic format. Paying folks to stand around in front of a scanner to manually scan all those books would be prohibitively expensive.

]]> By: Loz http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-33986 Loz Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:40:33 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-33986 <p>Past or passed? Guess I need to read more :)</p> Past or passed? Guess I need to read more :)

]]> By: Loz http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-33985 Loz Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:34:58 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-33985 <p>Sounds like a nice idea but I can't imagine having time to read a book on mine before getting distracted by a phonecall, text, email, game, net search, iPod track change etc.</p> <p>I don't think I'd get passed page 1!</p> Sounds like a nice idea but I can't imagine having time to read a book on mine before getting distracted by a phonecall, text, email, game, net search, iPod track change etc.

I don't think I'd get passed page 1!

]]> By: Mary Catherine http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-33968 Mary Catherine Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:55:16 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-33968 <p>Basically, you're talking about a device that's already on the market... The mod book, just with iPhone gestures. I don't see this as likely, it overlaps too many of their other products.</p> Basically, you're talking about a device that's already on the market... The mod book, just with iPhone gestures. I don't see this as likely, it overlaps too many of their other products.

]]> By: ryan http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-33962 ryan Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:07:47 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-33962 <p>MARVEL COMICS!! Please!</p> MARVEL COMICS!! Please!

]]> By: videopokerhowto http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-33958 videopokerhowto Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:40:25 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-33958 <p>interesting post, but who want one?</p> interesting post, but who want one?

]]> By: Manuel R. Ciosici http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-33954 Manuel R. Ciosici Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:02:17 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-33954 <p>Seeing how well Stanza did and how much the webcomics have spread lately, it's plausible that Apple considers books and comics as iTunes business. Also, it would be another weapon in the corporate arsenal to use to show people that they are green.</p> Seeing how well Stanza did and how much the webcomics have spread lately, it's plausible that Apple considers books and comics as iTunes business. Also, it would be another weapon in the corporate arsenal to use to show people that they are green.

]]> By: Chad Garrett http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-33953 Chad Garrett Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:26:24 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-33953 <p>Well, Steve said that no one reads anymore, so books are "dead". So, you know that is the next think coming to iTunes :-)</p> Well, Steve said that no one reads anymore, so books are "dead". So, you know that is the next think coming to iTunes :-)

]]> By: Steve http://www.imore.com/2009/03/03/apple-itablet-kindle-ebook-ecomic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-33949 Steve Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:52:58 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=7335#comment-33949 <p>Who wants one? Who wants a giant iPhone without a phone? <em>(cricket noises)</em> :roll:</p> Who wants one? Who wants a giant iPhone without a phone? (cricket noises) :roll:

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