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Apple Turnover

01 Feb 2010 | Danuta Kean

Apple's iPad shows that publishers have learned some tough lessons from other creative industries over the past 10 years, according to Danuta Kean

When Steve Jobs took the stage in San Francisco on Wednesday to introduce the new Apple iPad (a combination of tablet computer and ereader), it marked yet another milestone in the integration of books with other media. For the five large book publishers who have done a deal with the computing giant to sell books through Apple's iBookstore it means they will be in at the start of what could be the long awaited iPod moment in electronic book publishing.

Immediate reaction from the blogosphere to news that Apple had opted for the open source ePub format rather than a...


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