I don't know that the iPad will sell "great guns", but it will sell.
I happen to feel that this will be a good thing. I think the iPad will increase consumption of eBooks by casual readers (casual meaning 'not that many books a year'). I guess Amazon agrees on that, since it changed its revenue model from 70/30 to 30/70 just recently. I'm sure that the iPad will have a big influence on the eBook industry and will finally push it into mainstream. AND I have my complete multimedia collection and PDA programs on it as well! Everything else, from academic books / specialist books to magazines to newspapers, is superior on the iPad. It might be the best for them, but that's not the only thing I want to read. I think that the Kindle is really good for novels only. Like the paper version, but with interactivity. Has anyone seen the Times applications? It looks AWESOME.
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Plus, and that's a really BIG plus for me, the iPad can not only display books, but also magazines and newspapers in a more sophisticated fashion than the Kindle. I've been using my iPhone for reading before, but that was a bit too small. So I think the iPad is the ideal eBook reader for the casual reader, no matter the backlit display. I wouldn't buy a device for several hundred Euro that can do nothing else but display books (yes, I'm a casual reader). Personally, I think that eBooks will only then become really mainstream when they can be read on multiple purpose devices.
As long as the amateur publishing industry stays out of DRM, and that's what I'm assuming, they have nothing to worry about but rather a mayor opportunity. I have been buying indie music without DRM on eMusic for years and it naturally works fine on my Apple devices. Apple uses standard EPUB with its custom FairPlay DRM, so any open EPUB files should work fine. If you're an independent writer, be prepared to have your work scrutinized and rejected like so many app developers in the past, before it even gets near the iBook level. Third, the 'amateur' publishing industry will be crushed as Apple will more than likely have a strict 'vetting' policy in place like it does for the app store - and I'm betting that's how they got the publishers on board in the first place.
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