of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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We need a standard DRM-free format for ebooks that is supported by all devices. Alas, the juggernaut, Amazon, is using their own format and their own DRM. Even worse, publishers are in an even more ancient times than the recording industry. Looking back at how long we get DRM-free MP3/AAC as the standard distribution of online music legally, I'm afraid we're going to wait a looooong time for ebooks to follow suit.
@pika2000 I've just got a dreadful sinking feeling that Apple are going to launch their tablet/ebook thingy selling books through iTunes with their own proprietary "Apple Reader" file format that is only compatible with their device and convolute the market even more. I hope they don't.