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Издание Rolling Stone на Zinio для iPad с интеграцией iTunes

Using the Zinio App for the iPad (zinio.com/ipad), the iconic music title’s digital version will allow music enthusiasts to sample and purchase music with a swipe of a finger. The interactive edition will be available on other platforms as well, including Windows, Mac and Linux PCs. While fans read about legends ranging from Bob Dylan and Beyonce to Bruce Springsteen and Aretha Franklin, they can preview and purchase the Rolling Stone Special Collectors Edition’s song recommendations via iTunes.

Simon & Schuster сделало книжку с видео

Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital have released what they are calling their first-ever “enhanced e-book,” Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, via Apple’s iBookstore application. The enhanced e-book [iTunes link] includes an original interview with the author and 27 historic video segments produced by CBS News embedded alongside the original text, which was first published in hardcover in May 2008. A digital version without the video is also available through Amazon’s Kindle Store.

WIRED Magazine for iPad временно бесплатен

via itunes.apple.com Судя по противоречивым данным со всех сторон, у Conde Nast снесло крышу и он не знает, по какой цене торговать Wired. Последние данные из iTunes - приложение загружается бесплатно, июньский и июльский номера покупаются по $3,99.

Wired для iPad

via mashable.com Ура, товарищи.

The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books : The New Yorker

“By the end of last year, Amazon accounted for an estimated eighty per cent of all electronic book sales, and $9.99 seemed established as the price of an e-book. Publishers were panicked,” Auletta writes. After a confrontation with Amazon, five of the “big six” publishers have agreed to sell their e-books through Apple’s iBooks store, where they will be allowed to set prices, to a certain extent. One Apple insider told Auletta, “Ultimately, Apple is in the device—not the content—business.