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I have it pre-ordered on iBooks (figured that would be the most appropriate way to read it) and I'm staying up just to download it.
 
I figured the kindle version would be released first. I think I'm going to wait for audible.
 
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Odd kindle releases it early

yeah! specially since their goal is not to sell as much as possible, or to beat the iTunes Store to it...

remember... it all just business. It's never personal...
 
We got it ages ago. Been the 24th now for a long time.

I pre-ordered on Kindle and it still hasn't shown up in the display... Bit annoying! No doubt it will show up in the next few hours, but I should have bought it through iBooks and would have done so if I'd known Amazon's delivery schedule would be sub-standard.

Update: just received notification email and am downloading it now!
 
Just got it through iBooks on my iPad!!!!
 

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I can't think of a better way to read Steve's Biography than on an iPad.

I can. E-ink display (Kindle, etc.)

How you people can read an entire book on a back-lit screen without burning your retinas out, I'll never know ;)
 
So you can download it on iTunes for iBooks right now, but if you preordered it thru the same medium you're still waiting? :confused:

I preordered it but it won't show in my available downloads yet.

[edit] Canceled preorder and then just went to iTunes and downloaded it like everyone else who didn't have the foresight to pre-order. :p
 
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Just synced it to my iPod touch! Not sure why Automatic Downloads wasn't working as it should be. It turns out I pre-ordered the book on my MacBook (forgot how I pre-ordered) so I find it sitting in iTunes but it never got pushed until I manually synced my iPod touch to it.
 
I imagine the book has a few photographs? How does that hold up on the Kindle? Look any good?

I don't have one yet, but I'm planning on buying one soon, and this could be my first book on it.
 
How you people can read an entire book on a back-lit screen without burning your retinas out, I'll never know ;)

Just turn the brightness down. You can set the brightness on an LCD screen so that it's emitting exactly the same amount of light that an eInk screen would reflect.

I use both, they are both perfectly readable.
 
Amazon have the hardbacks now at half price, so in the UK that makes it 49p cheaper than the Kindle version. Although I am very happy that my Kindle delivered it to my bedside table for when I woke up, I feel a little insulted that I am paying a premium despite the costs of eBooks surely being cheaper to produce.
 
Just turn the brightness down. You can set the brightness on an LCD screen so that it's emitting exactly the same amount of light that an eInk screen would reflect.

I use both, they are both perfectly readable.

Black & white inversion while i bed works good too.

I had mine downloaded on kindle @ about 10pm last night on the east coast.
 
Amazon have the hardbacks now at half price, so in the UK that makes it 49p cheaper than the Kindle version. Although I am very happy that my Kindle delivered it to my bedside table for when I woke up, I feel a little insulted that I am paying a premium despite the costs of eBooks surely being cheaper to produce.

I agree with you, but remember ebooks have VAT while hard copies do not. I'd have though the reduced costs should still more than offset the VAT though. As for VAT on ebooks, that's just senseless. Should be neither or both.

Selfridges (London) had the hardbacks all stacked up on sale yesterday, so nuts to Amazon!
 
Uk

Does anyone know if any of the supermarkets in the UK are stocking the biography today?

Tesco, Asda, sainsburys, etc...

Was planning on picking it up after work tonight.
 
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