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Steve Jobs Biography Released Early on Kindle, Coming to iBooks at Midnight
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I'm glad I pre-ordered in June. My price was $14.99. It's more than that now. I'm reason a bit of it on my iPhone for now. But I'll go Back & for the the kindle also.
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...
haruhiko
macrumors 604
So it will really be available on Hong Kong's iBookstore (the Hong Kong store currently doesn't have any books that are not in public domain)? If yes I will buy that in additional to the hard cover version 😉
AlBDamned
macrumors 68030
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!
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 😉
Danny Mac
macrumors member
So you can download it on iTunes for iBooks right now, but if you preordered it thru the same medium you're still waiting? 😕
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. 😛
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. 😛
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ecapdeville
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Amazon Kindle works on my MacBook Pro. iBook only works on iOS. Kindle for me. I got it before midnight EST.
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.
I don't have one yet, but I'm planning on buying one soon, and this could be my first book on it.
EricNau
Moderator emeritus
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.
dubhe
macrumors 65816
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.
Black & white inversion while i bed works good too.
I had mine downloaded on kindle @ about 10pm last night on the east coast.
Lycanthrope
macrumors 6502a
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.
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.