Adobe has produced this video to whet our appetites for what’s coming later this year via its Digital Magazine Solution.  It makes production of slick, interactive digital magazines like Wired for the iPad look like something mere design mortals will be able to do. When Apple banned Adobe’s Flash from its iPhone and iPad, it [...]

[Read more →]

As Apple sells its three millionth iPad, a round of double-digit price cuts has hit most major ebook readers this week. Amazon dropped the price of its Kindle almost 30% to US$189 from US$259. This is less than half the original US$399 price tag when it was launched two and a half years ago. Amazon’s [...]

[Read more →]

ZDNet’s Jason Perlow has done a thorough job lining up the various e-reading apps available for the iPad and iPhone. His review covers: Apple’s iBooks Amazon Kindle for iPad Barnes and Noble eReader Kobo Reader (which is also the Borders eReader and will soon be the Whitcoulls eReader for the iPad) Ibis Reader (this is [...]

[Read more →]

Since the announcement of the iPad, magazine publishers have been scrambling to turn their magazines digital. But there’s one problem: unlike books, which have seen a surge in digital sales,  the magazine industry has no standard format that publishers, e-reading device manufacturers and consumers can rally around. That looks set to change as an influential [...]

[Read more →]

Apple’s grip on the media business tightened this week with the release of its latest operating system update for the iPhone OS4. And as its mobile product line expands, its operating system has dropped the “Phone” from its name to become iOS4. iOS4 is a free upgrade for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPads. It’s rumoured [...]

[Read more →]