Much as we love Amazon’s Kindle, you could never call it a looker, and it comes as no surprise to see Apple aggressively targeting this market with their new iPad.
Their new iBooks site already has the backing of five of the biggest publishers in the world including Penguin, Macmillion and Simon & Shuster.
Books can be browsed and bought from iTunes, and can be directly downloaded onto the iPad.
Typefaces can be changed easily from a built in selection and the font size can also be changed.
The interface looks quite attractive and Apple-slick, although we’re not sure how long we’d want to be looking at a backlit screen.
Apple are bundling in a copy of iWork, offering an impressively smooth and robust selection of apps for knocking out spreadsheets, graphs and tables, if that’s your kind of thing, and there’s a a virtual data keyboard for inputting numbers sharpish.
The larger screen and added functionality means that Apple has had to introduce drop down menus which is a major difference to the iPhone.
The iWork apps will be priced at $9.99 each.
More details soon….
[pics: Engadget]
