Pursuant to my post on iBooks for iPad, here’s a fantastic overview of the serious typographic deficiencies in iBooks on iPad, specifically, and on Apple’s part, generally, over the last decade or so, by Stephen Coles on fontfeed.com: [...]it’s exactly that part of media consumption, reading, that reveals what’s missing on the iPad: good typography. Signs [...]
By all accounts, iBooks is a beautiful app; a slick app, but almost too slick for its own good. In developing its iPad-native apps, Apple seems to have followed a relatively unified design paradigm: where apps have physical counterparts, they’ve designed the app to mimic the look of the physical object they’re intended to replace. [...]
So like a good little fanboy, I spent my early Saturday morning exactly where the people who know me best expected me to be (going by the number of emails and txt messages I’ve received): standing in line at the Apple store in SoHo, waiting to get my hands on an iPad. So I’ve got [...]
A solid brand is the only way anyone is going to make sustainable money, long term, directly from e-book sales. This is not to say that e-books will sell in the same numbers, or for the same prices, as physical books. This is also not to say that e-book publishing houses are going to look [...]