Bare Bones Software (http://www.barebones.com) has released BBEdit 9.6.1, an update to its strength HTML and text editor. It’s a maintenance release that fixes reported issues and adds several refinements.
The update is available free of charge to all registered BBEdit 9 customers. For new users it has a suggested retail price of US$125. Any registered owner of BBEdit prior to version 9.x can upgrade for $30.
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TIME lists the iPad among the “50 Best Inventions of 2010.” Here’s what the publication has to say about the Apple tablet:
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Rodman & Renshaw’s Ashok Kumar tells clients that the MacBook Air is cannibalizing iPad sales, reports “Fortune” (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/12/macbook-air-cannibalizing-ipad/?source=yahoo_quote). The analyst says:
° Supply chain checks that suggest that Apple’s monthly iPad production rate is unlikely to exceed two million per month by year’s end — considerably less than the 3 million/mos. some had predicted. That would put those six-plus million sales estimates for the December quarter at risk.
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James Murdoch, head of News Corp’s operations in Europe and Asia, says sales of newspaper apps for devices like the iPad are cannibalizing sales of physical newspapers, reports “Reuters” (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AB2OA20101112?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtechnologyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Technology%29).
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Jouve (http://www.jouve.fr) has developed an online client platform for Apple’s iBookstore, making its industrial conversion solutions available to publishers of all sizes.
Production costs start from US19.99 per book. Whatever the format (image or print PDF, epub, XML) or the complexity of the job, Jouve says it “ensures the highest quality production from its site in France. The production cost for each title is quoted upfront, and publishers can pay online to start the conversion process immediately.
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