We said it long ago: The Apple tablet will redefine newspapers, textbooks, magazines. Were we right? Is Apple bringing a media revolution? Oh, it's coming.

Books, Books, iBooks

We've had an iTunes store and now we've got an iBook store with content from Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette book group. We'll browse this content on a bookshelf-like page and add to it using a purchase system similar to the App store's. The pricing we're seeing during the presentation resembles what we've heard before with a price point of $14.99.
While Apple uses the ePub format, we don't have confirmation about whether you can import your own books into the iBook library—though odds are in favor of that freedom.

Newspapers With an Upgrade

While the New York Time's iPad application allows for playback of video clips and other enhanced content, we're not really getting anything that we couldn't get on the NYT website. The point is that now there's not only motivation for publishers to push online or app-based subscription models, present more enhanced content, put out their own apps—just as they did for the iPhone—but now there's an device which screams that it's ideal for the job.


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