Apple initially named five of the top six major publishers as launch partners for its iBookstore for the iPad. More recently, we heard that two independent publishers had signed deals to provide ...

A huge number of people think they might write a book some day—back in 2002, a survey pegged it at 81 percent of Americans. But what happens after you’ve managed to pen your 200,000 word epic on love ...

Overlooked in much of the hype about the iPad announcement earlier in the week was a comment by Steve Jobs in the Keynote presentation where he mentioned that the iBooks app for iPad would take ...

In an unexpected about-face, publisher Random House announced on Monday that it would adopt the agency model for e-book sales in the U.S., beginning March 1. This may pave the way for the world’s ...

Comic book junkies rejoice: Marvel has brought 80 graphic novels to Apple’s iBookstore. Titles like Civil War, Avengers, Dark Tower, Spider-Man, X-Men, and more are now available in the iBookstore for ...

Publishers happily signed on to distribute e-books for the iPad via Apple’s iBookstore, in part because it allowed more flexibility in pricing books above Amazon’s $9.99 ceiling on new and bestselling ...

Up until now, the Australian version of Apple's ebook marketplace, the iBookstore, has been fairly sparsely populated compared with rivals. But today, the company has added half a dozen major new ...

It's been over six months since the release of the iPad on April 3rd, and the simultaneous launch of iBooks and the iBookstore, which promised to give Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Store a run for its ...

A week before the iPad arrives in nine new countries, Apple has begun shipping some international preorders, and has also opened overseas versions of the iPad App Store and iBookstore. Some in the U.K ...

Apple works hard to ensure that inappropriate content doesn’t end up in the wrong hands, and it has strict ratings and approval processes for content distributed through the App Store, the iBookstore, ...

Selling a book with Apple’s iBook Author program is now a one-way ticket to Apple being the only place you can sell the book. Maybe selling your book on iBooks isn’t such a great deal after all. Dan ...