iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for March 29
Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
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Lulu’s self-published books coming to the iPad
Electronic book publisher Lulu (http://www.lulu.com/) told its top authors over the weekend that their electronic books can be made available on Apple’s new iBookstore that is debuting with the launch of the iPad on April 3.
According to “Digital Beat” (http://macosg.me/2/1t), Lulu said it would automatically convert books for submission to the iBookstore — unless authors didn’t want their books published on the iPad. According to R.R. Bowker’s Books in Print database, some 276,489 books were published traditionally in the U.S. in 2008. Lulu alone published over 400,000 titles last year.
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Verizon to pass on the iPhone?
The iPhone has changed the smartphone industry, but Verizon hasn’t changed its mind about Apple, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum.
“Interestingly enough, not because Apple isn’t giving it to them but, for the most part, because Verizon doesn’t want it,” Gelblum told “TheStreet” (http://www.thestreet.com/story/10713347/1/verizon-iphone-maybe-never.html),
Read MoreBest Buy limited to 15 iPads per store?
The Best Buy (http://www.bestbuy.com) stores that will be carrying the iPad when it goes on sale this Saturday will be limited to 15 per store, according to a TUAW report (http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/27/exclusive-best-buy-playbook-for-ipad-leaked-quantities-to-be-e/).
The story quotes a “tipster” as saying that each store will be limited to 15 iPads in stock, and those WiFi-only iPads will be evenly distributed among the three price points. Apple says “most” of the 670-plus Best Buy retail stores in the US will carry the iPad.
Read MoreApple stocks are at all time high
Apple shares were up as much as 1.3% to $233.87 in morning trades. The stock has risen nearly 17% since the company first introduced the iPad at a media event in late January.
“MarketWatch” (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-shares-set-new-highs-on-ipad-frenzy-2010-03-29) notes that Apple stock has more than doubled from its level at this time last year, hitting an all-time high. The stock was up $1.19 at $232 Monday afternoon.
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