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Court Denies Motion To Halt iBooks Antitrust Monitor’s Actions

February 10, 2014

The US Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit has denied Apple’s motion to stop the actions of Michael Bromwich, Apple’s court-ordered antitrust monitor. The...

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FoxTrot Cartoonist Uses iBooks Author To Create iBook Comics

Joshua Schnell -

April 17, 2012

Bill Amend, the American cartoonist responsible for the popular FoxTrot comic strip, has decided to experiment with independently publishing his FoxTrot comic digitally on the...

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Flickr Find Friday: Tech Support

Marilyn Halpin -

February 17, 2012

I can easily say I’ve never heard of anyone using an iBook to prop up a couch. With all the accidentally cracked and dropped Apple...

Apple Inc.

Apple announces iBooks Author application to assist in building digital textbooks

Joshua Schnell -

January 19, 2012

Today at its Education event in New York City, Apple announced the creation of a new digital textbook authoring tool called iBooks Author. The application...

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Who put the “i” in iBooks, a New York publisher sues Apple

Joshua Schnell -

June 16, 2011

Another day, another trademark dispute for Apple. This time around publisher John T. Colby has filed a suit against Apple for its use of the...

Apple Inc.

Random House might be coming to the iBookstore in the near future

Joshua Schnell -

March 1, 2011

Random House has finally caved to demand and decided that it’s time they switch pricing models to a system more in line with Apple’s 70/30...

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QuickLook: iBooks gets updated to 1.2 and now includes collections

Joshua Schnell -

December 15, 2010

The rumors were true: Apple has included book and PDF based “collections” in the iBooks application with their recent 1.2 update, available as of today....