Are you a budding author who needs help?  Apple has just given you a way to get your masterpiece into the iBooks store for the iPad (and soon for iPhone with OS 4.0), and the best thing is  you can do it all yourself without ever knocking the doors of an publisher, distributor, agent or anything else for that matter. You, as an author can decide how much to charge and which countries to sell into. You  get the same deal as the iPhone/iPad app publishers( meaning that Apple takes 30% and you keep 70% of the revenue).

There are some requirements before you can successfully publish your book on the iBookStore:

• Get an ISBN numbers for the books you want to publish
• Convert the book into EPUB format
• Make sure the book pass EpubCheck 1.0.5
• a US Tax ID (sorry guys, this is only open to the US at this point)
• an iTunes account backed up by a credit card Read the rest of this entry »

Apple has released iPad, its new tablet computer, which is the size of a standard children’s slate and does not have a keyboard or mouse, but relies on a touch-screen.

Apple iPad

Steve Jobs claims it will offer the best browsing experience you can have, like “holding the Internet in your hands.” The iPad appears to be answer to netbooks, but combines the best of all iPhone and earlier Apple products. Read the rest of this entry »