Digimi Publishing today announced the release of “iPod + iTunes Quick Tips,” a new US$5 eBook packed with “easy, concise and all-around cool tips meant to make your experience with Apple’s digital music duo more fun and more efficient.” The 59-page eBook has 100 tips (95 screenshots) and was written by Larry Angell, MacMinute Editor-in-Chief and iPodlounge News Editor, and Charles Starrett, a freelance writer and Mac OS X guru.
Read MoreNeedham & Co. analyst Charles Wolf says that the combination of iPod and iTunes is causing more and more Windows users to switch to the Mac platform. “Although music suite sales were expectedly strong [in the third quarter], the upside surprise was due chiefly to stronger than anticipated sales of iBooks and PowerBooks,” Wolf wrote in a research note Thursday.
Read MoreApple said it doesn’t expect to make great profits from selling songs on its iTunes Music Store. Instead, the company is counting on the store to boost sales of the iPod, which has much higher margins. “The iPod makes money. The iTunes Music Store doesn’t,” Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller told CNET News.com after the launch of the Windows version today.
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