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iBooks Assessments

The two most reasonable assessments of iBooks, iBooks Author, and the near future of ebooks more generally come from Andy Ihnatko on 5by5’s podcast The Ihnatko Almanac: Some Assembly Required (episode #16) and Duke Sociologist Kieran Healy’s blog post Apple for the Teacher.

Both are recommended.


“  The marvel of the iPad is not that it can replace a Mac. It’s that it opened the door to all sorts of things that a Mac was never all that good for.” — John Gruber

“  In short, the best way to serve a reading audience is to focus on providing a terrific reading experience and to de-emphasize the showy, buggy and difficult-to-use extras that have become synonymous with the ‘iPad magazine app’ format.” — Khoi Vinh on iPad magazine apps

“  Your killer apps are not necessarily my killer apps.” — John Gruber talking about platforms and Nokia

“  This is the big leagues. There is no credit for trying.” — Gruber on Pogue on Chromebook

“  I like books. And I feel guilty every time I look up from my iPad and see the hundreds of books lining my walls, looking at me like Woody and Buzz watching Andy discover video games. But it’s getting easier and easier for me to see how they get replaced by eBooks, and harder and harder for me to come up with arguments about why that’s a bad thing.” — Ezra Klein

“  This is The Show.” — Gruber on the market for tablet computers

The New York Times - Not Dead Yet

Marco reports that The New York Times is finally doing something that actually sounds like 2011: News.me.

It’s hard to imagine such an interesting sounding app, that’s downright progressive even, coming out of the same firm that just last month implemented a paywall with so little skill or subtly. We can only hope that News.me will be great and whoever is in charge of this project gets the authority to fix the rest of the newspaper’s apps and digital offerings.


iPhone Text Editors Compared

From the Great Michael Tsai.

I’m mixing and matching with Simplenote (Notational Velocity on OS X) and PlainText. My biggest problem is that the only way that I have to fully roam (and then edit) the notes scattered throughout my Dropbox is with GoodReader.


“  To me, the extra $5/month [The New York Times is] charging for iPad app access indicates that they see iPad users as suckers to be fleeced.” — John Gruber