How many people will be using iBook?

[HappyDude20]

I already moved to reading almost everything digital now. I use my iPhone and laptop to read; but would love to get an iPad for reading. I think it will be PERFECT.

Interestingly enough I started a thread earlier that asked if you do a lot of reading on a Macbook...I asked this initially because I stated I have a bunch of e-books in like PDF file formats. @ times i've printed out these ebooks, though at the behest of printing like 96+ pages for one book, so that didn't satisfy me.

I was checking out the Kindle today (for the very first time) and really liked the e-ink feature. Of the lack of wifi, 3g, apps, etc make it suck compared to an iPad but the iPad's glass screen seems like a playground for finger print marks and i'm guessing will completely suck to use out in the daylight, as I hate using my MBP outside in the middle of the day.

I definitely will. I've no bookshelf space left and no room for more bookshelves. I've been a book hoarder for decades. My only worry is e-books seem so ephemeral -- you have them one day and the next they could all be gone (true for everything I suppose.) Of course, this is paranoia coming from a 50-year old just beginning to become too set in my ways.

I can consider myself a slight vagabond, have no bookshelf yet love to read. I'll spend half a day at the library just reading up a good book if I can, but as stated above. Most of my books are e-books, most in PDF format and most of those converted to epub for when I used to have an iPhone and synced them up w/ the Stanza app.

But I still keep thinking about the iPad's bright screen. I do a lot of reading b4 bed and I'd hate to look @ a bright screen before dozing off.

 

[johnnyhow]

My friend has the iBook and I am so glad I waited a few years for the MacBook instead, vastly superior.

 

[egautreaux]

I will probably use it more than I normally read books. I do have a few questions though:

1. How large will the file sizes be?

2. Can they be stored over the air like Wattpad on my BB Storm?

3. Will I be able to import my own like mp3's in itunes?

 

[MRU]

I'd use the iBook store, accept of course I can't because unlike the iBookstore i'm not 'USA only'......

By the time iPad launches - Amazon's Kindle Application will undoubtably have been beefed up to full iPad supporting resolution, and feature the page turning fun of classics. It will also allow users outside of the USA to purchase books in $ (meaning even better pricing for International customers).

Remember this is already available on the iPhone so it will be at launch, but iPad specific update is assured.

Therefore..

By the time iBook store launches in Europe and the rest of the world... Will we need it ?


iTunes got away with delayed / staggered launch as there was no competition.

iBook store does not have that grace. If Apple don't rectify worldwide licensing within 6 months. It will have missed the boat.

 

[sushi]

My guess will be that I will be using iBook.

I currently have Zinio for magazines and now subscribe to more than I did via print. Very convenient.

 

[Lindat]

I might. But it depends on how the prices go really.
Does anyone else feel like me, that the Kindle/ibook prices should be considerably cheaper?
I know you get the same book in electronic format, but, there is no paper or printing, no distribution to wholesalers, no onward transportation to retailers, no high street shop rents to pay, etc etc. Electronic books must be the way forward - after all, we're saving the planet! The planet needs all the trees it can get, so if we can save a few, fantastic.
But surely these electronic prices should be waaaaay cheaper? We want to encourage as many as possible to use these ibooks. We can't sell them on afterwards on ebay, we can't lend them, we can't keep them for years at home like a regular book. They are, in effect, disposable items, used once then wiped away probably. Should we pay high prices for them?
What do you reckon?
(I know wholesalers and retailers would not agree as we'll be doing them out of business!)

 

[greygray]

I will not.

+1 since I have a Kindle.

 

[cube]

The only thing called iBook is the laptop Apple made some years ago.

 

[ss957916]

Just dawned on me - is that why Apple renamed the iBooks to MacBooks? So they could use iBook for digital books?

 

[cube]

Just dawned on me - is that why Apple renamed the iBooks to MacBooks? So they could use iBook for digital books?

PowerBook had to be renamed.

 

[iSlate Fanboy]

I will be using iBooks, the interface looks so slick. The only concern I have is eye fatigue over a long period of time with it being a backlit screen.

 

[wolfpackfan]

I'll probably just continue using the Kindle and B&N apps. Unless a book I want to read is cheaper at the iBooks store.