Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The iPad iBooks App uses free, open-source ePub format


Oh, suck it, Amazon.

In demonstrating the iPad’s new slick iBooks e-book reading application, it was explicitly stated that the iPad uses the free, open e-book standard, ePub format.

This is a surprisingly rare but welcome move for Apple in embracing a non-proprietary media format.

ePub doesn’t mean no DRM, but it does mean you’ll be able, if only through third party Apps, to transfer your own books from other devices.

Yippy...Thats a super smart move by apple (Like always)... :-)

Jeff Bezos has got to be nursing a migraine right now. lolzz..

1 comment:

Unknown said...

this is getting too technical for me .. but sounds impressive