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Apple Ipad: Will It Lead A Reading Revolution?

Posted at 11:44AM Friday 28 May 2010

Here comes the Apple iPad, and it's making straight for the publishing industry. But are publishers diving for the dugout or leading a potential revolution in reading? The first part of Nicholas Mosley's 1990 Whitbread novel of the year Hopeful Monsters is entitled "We Know the Predicament", the second "So What do We Do?" Publishers might find Mosley's novel instructive right now, not least for its brilliant imagining of an evolutionary process completed within a single generation. All publishers are now experiencing accelerated change – what should we contribute to the shock of the (not so) new?

UK iBookstore launches with limited number of publishers (macnn.com)

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