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Oh, Apple

So, Nate submitted the ebook version of Zone, our 517-page, one-sentence book to the various ebook vendors this week, and got this amazing “error ticket” from Apple: Please include indents before paragraphs and/or blank lines between paragraphs. See the iBookstore Formatting Guidelines, section ...

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Three Percent #12: Lawsuits and Million Dollar Ideas

For this week’s podcast we decided to talk about a few recent news items, starting with this lawsuit against Apple that “alleges that the publishers and Apple colluded to increase prices for popular e-book titles to boost profits and force e-book rival Amazon to abandon its pro-consumer discount pricing.” ...

The latest wave of e-book discussion

One of the best technology websites around, Ars Technica, takes a look at e-books. What’s most interesting to me about this particular article is that it was written by someone, John Siracusa, who was there at the very beginning of e-books. I honestly can’t remember the first e-book I read on its ...