iPad offers people a new way to read
April 10th, 2010 | By Ovi Demetrian Jr | Posted in DistributionPublishing
Of course these past couple of weeks people have been talking about the iPad. If you haven’t seen it for yourself I’m sure you’ve read or heard your share of reviews. In relation to the publishing world, a good thorough review was done over at BookSquare.
The overall response seems to be very positive. Most reviewers have basically pointed out that a device that allows you to read what we’ve been reading on computer screens for years in a more comfortable way is something people want. It’s true that to a certain extent the Kindle did this first, but it seems easier to make that transition to something else with a screen the way a lot of people have been doing with their mobile devices. Plus the iPad has the cool factor people are looking for in technology now.
All this talk around the iPad seems to have changed people’s perspective on reading as they now have a way of reading digitally as another form of leisure. Apple has indeed created a new line of technology products. Your computer is now for Email and maybe researching something, your phone is for communicating (Email, Twitter, etc), and your iPad or tablet device, is for reading news, articles and books. And more people grasping this concept is what will expand the audience for ebooks. Because now there is a device designed specifically for reading them.
Ovi Demetrian Jr is the founder and interface designer for Indie Aisle. He loves books of fiction along with comics and has delusions of writing his own stories someday.
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i am planning to buy an iPad since it looks lighter than a regular desknote and i don not use much of the features of a laptop.–”