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Seems stupid too, ebook readers need to be light and have a long battery life, neither you get from a backlit TFT. I can read a PDF on my TX2 laptop but (for lots of reasons) I dont.

Perhaps this iSlate is just a standard E ink reader? Either way, I still cant give an arse.]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
Zune Phone. It's not for you.]]>Jan 26th 2010 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Sadly enough, I believe they will be... maybe once or twice until they discover they can get it for free or that reading a book is still boring to most people, even on a shiny piece of tech.
I'm really interested to see how this product goes over the next few years as I still do not understand the appeal / use of tablet computers outside of specialist applications and niche areas... but hey, this is probably the reason I am not a millionaire.]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
I don't purchase apple products because the are expensive, I purchase them because of the amazing costumer service that comes with the product. A Dell or HP laptop for $700 last a good 12-15 months before it crashes, then its a pain to get through to all the service people and expensive as hell to fix. An apple product may cost $1000+, but it last MUCH longer and if it does break, an apple associate at the local apple store will fix it no problem and will usually make it as cheap as possible, not to mention advise so the same problem doesn't happen again.]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
yes it does, but who wants to bet that the day the tablet comes out there will be hackers cracking the digital copies and putting them on torrent sites?]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/They will be thinking about what your mom is wearing tomorrow night.]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/You know you are replying to a post about how much eBooks are going to cost on a device outed by the CEO of a publishing company, right? This is a useless e-reader! ]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
Way to go making sweeping generalisations.

Windows machines break within 12-15 months? Tell that to all the enterprises out there buying Dell, HP, Lenovo laptops. These laptops generally have a 24 - 36 month refresh cycle and that is mainly due to increases in performance in newer machines and degradation of battery life of the current machines.

Would they keep buying these in droves if they all failed within 12-15months?

Sounds like you are regurgitating stuff you read on an apple forum.

I haven't had an of the shelf machine fail in under 4 years - only a machine that I built myself.]]>Jan 27th 2010 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Face it, if you saw a jar of Steve Jobs... jobs... on eBay, you'd put a bid on it. I know I would, if it came signed and authenticity verified.]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/One thing will be for certain, however much they charge, the authors will be screwed over.]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
People will buy it *if* it has a compelling user experience.

PS Amazon was taking a bigger cut from publishers until the announcements last week

PPS At least content providers will be paid for the content, which is good thing for everyone.]]>Jan 26th 2010 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/not necessarily, remember the number of audience a book is exposed to at any book store, be it brick and mortar retail or online stores.
A book at a bookstore close by is only exposed to a limited number of customers, let it be a hypothetical number, 10,000 of customers..
be it sold on itunes just like the music, your exposure quadruples exponentially.

For a physical book, a number of copies to be printed is limited by the publisher's budget.

For an electronic book, a number of copies to be sold is limited by its exposure to the public.

Thus Amazon might sell more books by Writer X than your local book store.
Thus why iTunes [last i checked] sells more music than Amazon.]]>Jan 26th 2010 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
All the while we heard rumored reports that Harper Collin Publisher will also try to sell e-books diectly to iTunes once the Apple tablet has been unveiled.. Pff, Hopefully this won't spell a new shift to the news world.. Giving "TOLL-FEE" to every news we read. Details: http://bit.ly/iphone-4g-apple-tablet-details
]]>Jan 26th 2010 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/You know, as a student, all I really want this thing to have is a full fledged version of Acrobat Pro and for it to run Office. Is that too much to ask!? Probably.]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
A lot of Apple haters are into scatology.....

I wonder why?]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
But seriously folks, get a grip. Stop complaining about the coverage, please. They tried condensing the rampant rumors to a single post per day, yet that was STILL too much. PLEASE get a grip, you're all sounding too cliche'd at this point when you complain about excessive Apple coverage. Try checking the facts.]]>Jan 27th 2010 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 27th 2010 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/"STINK" is a subjective experience ;-)]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
God, the anti-Apple fanboys are so much worse than the pro-Apple fanboys. And so much more vocal. Wahh wahh wahhh.]]>Jan 27th 2010 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
Well there was another gadget blog that I used to visit but now more than half the news over there are Apple related so I gave up on it.
]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
@Strangefate

We're not worse than pro-Apple fans. We're better, in fact. We know the true value of a computer when it comes to picking the right one, within reasonable price ranges. I'm not paying 1.5 or 2k on a Mac with specs that are 10 years old.

This tablet will be like every other tablet PC out there, but the specs on this will be crap, the price will be outrageous, and the mindless sheep who follow this crap will buy it because it's Apple. Watch for it.

We are vocal because we care for our fellow human beings to pick a good computer at a good price, not a crappy, overpriced computer. Otherwise, we would not say anything except to encourage the mindless sheep to waste money on Apple's products. ]]>Jan 27th 2010 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 27th 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 27th 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
If you listen to Apple they never make money from anthing! They have always said they make no money from OSX, no money from software and now they make no money from music or films either. I wonder where that $3 billion came from!]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
this is for books in 'hardcover' which are usually priced more than $15. It may be like video games, start high and wait 6 months for the bargain bin prices.

I understand that philosophy ... mainly because I'm patient. ]]>Jan 27th 2010 1:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 27th 2010 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 27th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Doesn't matter. They probably won't be cheaper than price to purchase minus price of resale.]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Guess what, you can't resell e-book like physical books.]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
But it beats carrying around 5 heave textbooks, and you get what, 10% back for what you spent at the bookstore anyway. I usually buy my books off amazon and if the itablet can see e-textbooks at a cheaper price it would be a great idea. Im still not sure if its a purchase or not(I wanna test it for myself when it releases), but the e-textbooks on this sounds cool.]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/What I'm REALLY wondering is what happens after your semester is over, and you're stuck with an expensive digital copy. You can't sell that on to someone else like you would a physical textbook.]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
I have a tablet and currently use it for school. I find most of my textbooks online, and the ones I can't find I buy and scan.

Having every book with you during the day without breaking your back is awesome. I have them open during class, and clip diagrams and pictures into one note to annotate them. When I'm reading them on my own time, I can mark them up like I would a normal textbook, and cross reference important sections with my notes.

I'm real happy with my tablet, but I'm very eager to see what apple has tomorrow. If there is no stylus and there is no way to take notes and annotate books, I'll quickly lose interest as I have no use for yet another device to play my music and videos.]]>Jan 27th 2010 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
I think most would be happy if they simply stopped the scam of creating a "new" edition every other year.]]>Jan 27th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
This is of course assuming this is what they actually want to price these things at. I guess we'll see it's announced tomorrow and in the time following its release. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until then.]]>Jan 26th 2010 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
Jailbreaking the tablet!]]>Jan 26th 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
I don't know much about e-book piracy, but isn't a lot of this stuff on really basic formats like .txt, .html, .xml, .pdf, .epub, etc? I would expect whatever the Apple Tablet is to be able to read at least some of those, and even if it doesn't, it'll be jailbroken to allow support for them.

It's the same thing I say about all entertainment, give me something that takes into account both the ease and the difficulties of piracy, and give me a price point that's worth it. I think $10 for an e-book is just fine, but $15 is pushing it. That extra $5 will add up over time. Simple as that.]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Jan 26th 2010 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
And like you said, anyway you slice it, tablet jailbreaking (I want 25 cents every time that term is used lol) will allow users to do anything they want. There is no way Apple can patch all their holes, some dev will find a way in. Look at the PS3 as an example, newly hacked by geohot.

Now I have 3 things to look forward to:
1) the tablet announcement and it being shown off
2) it's release (ugh, the wait lol)
3) It's impending Jailbreak!]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/01/steve-jobs-peop/#ixzz0dm2jKoeY
]]>Jan 26th 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/Whoops didn't mean to add the link in, I'm just sloppy.]]>Jan 26th 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-be/
Part of the process of greasing the skids for this is to conveniently lose such statements down the iRabbit hole.

There is a reason why Apple's first big commercial was based on 1984 apparently.]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:25PM