Neowin News Feed for: Ibooks

iBooks Store and iTunes Movies reportedly banned in China

Matt Blowes — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 07:10:01 +0000

A week after mysteriously going offline in the country, a new report says Apple's iTunes Movies and iBooks stores were banned by Chinese authorities in a bid to prop-up local competitors. Read more...

Apple Music, Beats Radio, iTunes, App Store and other Apple services hit by outages

Andy Weir — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:48:34 +0000

Nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards should have been announced on Beats 1 today. Instead, the radio station is down, along with Apple Music, iTunes, the App Store, Apple TV and other key services. Read more...

Apple reaches settlement in eBook price fixing case

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:58:39 +0000

Apple has managed to reach a settlement with US states and consumers, two years since a lawsuit was filed against the company and five major publishers for illegally raising prices of eBooks. Read more...

OS X Mavericks Review

Nathan Liu — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:00:18 +0000

The questionably named OS X Mavericks is out for all to purchase today. But should we trust this very incremental update? Are the performance updates really noticeable? Read more...

DOJ wants Apple to place links to third-party e-book stores in iOS apps

John Callaham — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:08:30 +0000

The US Department of Justice has proposed Apple restore links to third-party e-book stores, such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble, in their iOS apps as part of Apple losing the ebook price fixing trial. Read more...

It's the US vs Apple in court today over e-book price fixing charges

John Callaham — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:26:10 +0000

Today, the US government and Apple face off in court, with Apple accused of attempting to fix the price of e-books in cooperation with several book publishers. Apple has denied the charges. Read more...

Apple and Flipboard team up to sell more iBooks

Jake Durasamy — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:02:44 +0000

Apple and Flipboard have teamed up so that Flipboard has rights to distribute iBooks through it's magazine inspired application. Flipboard will get 5% of the profit for each of the iBooks sold. Read more...

Apple's keynote, by the numbers

John Callaham — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:54:27 +0000

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced today at the iPad mini press conference that there have been 200 million hardware updates to the company's iOS 6 software since it launched just over a month ago. Read more...

Apple: charges of eBooks price fixing are "simply not true"

John Callaham — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:54:19 +0000

Apple has finally responded to the Justice Department's claims that it worked with book publishers to fix eBook prices, calling the allegations "simply not true." Read more...

Apple and others face lawsuit for allegedly fixing eBook prices

John Callaham — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:11:19 +0000

The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Apple and several book publishers, claiming that the companies had worked together to fix the prices of their eBooks. Read more...

DOJ accuses Apple and other publishers of price fixing e-books

Nathan Tsui — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:16:47 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department has warned Apple and five book publishers that it is planning to sue, alleging that the companies colluded to raise the price of digital books. Read more...

Apple preparing to target Amazon with iBooks improvements?

Nathan Tsui — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:48:26 +0000

Rumors continue to grow that Apple is poised to make an announcement later this month about its iBooks platform - an announcement that some are saying should give Amazon cause to worry. Read more...

Apple named in EU probe on eBook pricing

John Callaham — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:58:35 +0000

Apple and a number of book publishers have been named in an investigation by the European Union over alleged anti-competitive pricing in the selling or eBooks. Read more...

iTunes 11 to receive visual overhaul?

Paul Ferson — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:55:03 +0000

Rumors online suggest that Apple's iTunes 11 could go in a completely different visual direction to the present iteration of the popular media player. Read more...

Apple patents new tech for its iBooks

John Callaham — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:18:17 +0000

Apple has filed for some new technology patents that are designed to improve and add features to the company's iBooks division. The web site PatentlyApple.com reports that the patents, which appeared last week on the... Read more...

Apple sued over iBooks name

John Callaham — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:43:43 +0000

Apple has found itself in yet another court battle to fight over the use of a name it has given to one of its many online services. This time the dispute is over iBooks, the... Read more...

Block and parry: Apple blocks iBooks for jailbreakers, community finds way around

Matthew Jones — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:51:52 +0000

For those who love picking up a digital tome via the iBookstore, but also love freeing their iPhone or iPod touch from certain Apple-enforced restrictions, it looked like there was a tough choice brewing today. According... Read more...

iPad's iBooks to be US only

Andrew Fairbairn — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:00:18 +0000

One of the main new features introduced with Apple's iPad tablet computer is its iBooks application which turns the machine into an eBook reader, good enough to rival established devices such as Amazon's Kindle and... Read more...

Apple Sued for iPod Monopoly, Defective iBooks

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:16:05 +0000

It seems that the stock scandal wasn't enough for Apple; the Associated Press is reporting that the company is facing several lawsuits. One of them, filed July 21, alleges that Apple is monopolizing the digital... Read more...

New iBooks, xServe RAID 5.6TB, PowerMac G5 1.8GHz released

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:50:03 +0000

Apple has released a bevy of revised systems today- iBooks: 1.25GHz/1.33GHz with Airport extreme and Combo, a xServe RAID model with 5.6TB of storage and a single CPU PowerMac G5 1.8GHz.... Read more...

Apple to introduce new PowerBooks, iBooks next week

Sat, 17 Apr 2004 00:34:11 +0000

Apple is expected to introduce new PowerBooks and iBooks early next week, according to MacNN sources. Apple will introduce revised 12-inch PowerBooks (two models), two revised 15-inch PowerBooks, one new model of the 12" iBook,... Read more...

Apple gives iBooks a step up

Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:33:37 +0000

Apple Computer on Wednesday turned up the performance of its iBook portable computers and turned down the prices on its eMac desktops. The company updated its iBook by adding the PowerPC G4... Read more...