HarperCollins negotiations to provide ebooks for Apple’s Tablet; Graphical Capabilities For Gaming
1/19/2010 11:32:00 AM
kenmouse
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According to the Wall Street Journal, book publisher HarperCollins is in serious talks with Apple about a ebook deal for Apple’s heavily rumored yet still unconfirmed tablet that’s anticipated to be announced at the January 27th Apple press event.
Chief executive of HarperCollins Brian Murray stated that e-books enhanced with extra media content such as video, author interviews, and social-networking applications could make a play for higher retail prices for publishers than current ebooks, something that ebook-providing companies, especially Amazon would have to start worrying about.
The HarperCollins negotiations with Apple correspond to a direct threat to Amazon, which currently dominates the fast-growing e-book market but which could face significant competition from an Apple tablet release. The next several weeks should be filled with many news updates from Apple, and their mystery product launch – feel free to opine below about this particular ebook matter at hand.
Apple Tablet Might Have Decent Graphical Capabilities For Gaming?
Even though the existence and announcement of the Apple Tablet is pretty much a lock for January 27, we still don't know much about specs or capabilities. But it might do gaming at least decently.
Apple invited our sister site Kotaku to the event as well. Not much, on the surface of things, but because details are so slim about the tablet, small tells give us a sneak peek into what Apple's engineers are planning.
Because the tablet's not a phone, both in terms of computing capability and input mechanics, people are going to be expecting more from its performance. Especially in the gaming realm, which Apple has been pushing hard in their ads for the iPod Touch and iPhone. If the guess that Apple will include iPhone App Store support on the tablet is true, it'll at least enough graphical capability to run those games.
But our guess is that we'll see at least an Nvidia Ion-esque solution (like the Nvidia 9400M found in MacBooks), supposing the whole thing runs with at least as much power as a decently specced netbook.
Who knows though—we could be reading too much into this.
Chief executive of HarperCollins Brian Murray stated that e-books enhanced with extra media content such as video, author interviews, and social-networking applications could make a play for higher retail prices for publishers than current ebooks, something that ebook-providing companies, especially Amazon would have to start worrying about.
The HarperCollins negotiations with Apple correspond to a direct threat to Amazon, which currently dominates the fast-growing e-book market but which could face significant competition from an Apple tablet release. The next several weeks should be filled with many news updates from Apple, and their mystery product launch – feel free to opine below about this particular ebook matter at hand.
Apple Tablet Might Have Decent Graphical Capabilities For Gaming?
Even though the existence and announcement of the Apple Tablet is pretty much a lock for January 27, we still don't know much about specs or capabilities. But it might do gaming at least decently.
Apple invited our sister site Kotaku to the event as well. Not much, on the surface of things, but because details are so slim about the tablet, small tells give us a sneak peek into what Apple's engineers are planning.
Because the tablet's not a phone, both in terms of computing capability and input mechanics, people are going to be expecting more from its performance. Especially in the gaming realm, which Apple has been pushing hard in their ads for the iPod Touch and iPhone. If the guess that Apple will include iPhone App Store support on the tablet is true, it'll at least enough graphical capability to run those games.
But our guess is that we'll see at least an Nvidia Ion-esque solution (like the Nvidia 9400M found in MacBooks), supposing the whole thing runs with at least as much power as a decently specced netbook.
Who knows though—we could be reading too much into this.
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